Poem about the 5th Season?

March 23, 2009 10:29 PM

A poem in which the 5th season is mortality?

The Fifth Season? Trying to find a poem for a friend who's putting together a program for a memorial service.

"We are looking for a favorite poem of hers named something like "The Fifth Season". We do not know the poet, nor if this title is accurate (it could be "The Five Seasons"?) but it has something to do with the seasons of life, and how the end of mortality is a fifth season.

I don't think it's this or this.

posted by Gucky to writing & language (1 comment total)

I've seen it here and there, but without any author listed. Some places online seem to attribute it to "C. A. Schlea." I'm not sure who that is, but anyway, here's the copy I have...

The Fifth Season

In the spring of life,
In the flower of youth,
Everything is bright and new.

In the summer of life,
Time of growth and change,
Each day brings new dreams to pursue.

In the autumn of life,
There's a settling down --
Contentment and sureness in what we do.

In the winter of life,
Comes peace and wisdom,
Time to relax and reminisce, too.

But with the passing of these seasons,
Life is still not done, not through,
For there is yet another season,
When each spirit is renewed.

And it is in this calm fifth season,
In this hopeful second spring,
A time of cleansing and rebirth,
A time of new awakening.

Each person's life will come full circle,
Even as the seasons do,
To start another, different life,
Much better than the one we knew.
posted by zerzura at 6:53 AM on March 24 [1 favorite]