Text: Solveig Hansen, 2022
One is 7, the other is 80. They both wrote about falling leaves in the autumn.
This landed in my Twitter feed and made my day on October 6, 2022:
Irish poet Pat Ingoldsby is known for taking something ordinary and making it extraordinary, in this case a single leaf in a tree outside his house. “All the other leaves are gone are you are still there.”
Z for short. 
Dear Solveig,
Hello! I am going to resonate with the photo and the poem musically. Those colourful leaves remind me of the 1945 popular French song “Les feuilles mortes” (literally “The Dead Leaves”) sung by Edith Piaf and Yves Montand with music by Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques Prévert, and later translated into English as “Autumn Leaves” by the American songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1947.
Included here is the version sung by Nat King Cole. It is indeed a very nostalgic song. I hope that you like it.
Thank you for composing this latest post of yours entitled “Leaves are falling. It’s autumn.” as we enjoy the final month of autumn in November.
Wishing you a productive November and a wonderful weekend doing or enjoying whatever that satisfies you the most, whether intellectually, artistically, physically or spiritually!
Yours sincerely,
SoundEagle
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Thanks for your lovely comment. That Nat King Cole song is hauntingly melancholy – a perfect match for November Blues. I love it!
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Dear Solveig,
You are welcome. I am delighted that you love it. Since you have such a fine musical taste and appreciated the English version of “Autumn Leaves”, I would like to inform you that I have featured some of the best of songs for the autumn season in one of my latest posts entitled “🌤️🌾 A September to Remember: Greeting Post-Pandemic and Post-Elizabethan Age 👑🏰 with Sapphires, Asters, Poems and Songs 💎🌼📜🎶“, which also mentions and features the late Queen Elizabeth II in a special way. For your convenience, the link is:
https://soundeagle.wordpress.com/2022/09/30/a-september-to-remember-greeting-post-pandemic-and-post-elizabethan-age-with-sapphires-asters-poems-and-songs/
Please enjoy to your heart’s content. I welcome your input since I am curious to know what you make of my said post as well as your perspectives on those contents presented in my post. I look forward to savouring your feedback there!
Yours sincerely,
SoundEagle
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