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Burk28 Member
since 2009-01-08
Posts 80Michigan USA |
Red metal lawn chairs rocking ever so gently from Lake Erie offshore breezes, July’s green, pungent bouquet wafting up the banks into the yard. The blackbirds are in the cherry trees again dining on red delights. This ancient brother won’t last long, its roots have become entangled with the air and erosion of sand and soil. There was a stone on the beach, right at the waters edge, for me it was like scaling a mountain. Its smooth wet surfaces blocked my ascent and eluded my summit. The girls; my sisters, jumped over it with ease. Climbed to its craggy ridges and sat, celebrating sun and wave. That stone is still there, buried and revealed countless times by storms and tidal surges. It is much smaller now, easily scaled, This insurmountable object of my youth… Is a welcome respite to days of a young boy’s games and memories. O, to climb again! My grandfather’s lute plays distant melodies over the red matching table. As the freshness of those days and their innocence, refresh my memories with sights and sounds of bygone childhood summers. Peace of mind can only be achieved when we find peace with self |
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Mysteria 
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
And thank God for those memories. What a wonderful reflection on one's youth. |
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Burk28 Member
since 2009-01-08
Posts 80Michigan USA |
Mysteria, thank you, just amoment in time that suddenly rushed to mind, I was extremly blessed to have such memorys Peace of mind can only be achieved when we find peace with self |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
Blessed indeed, to have them and to be able to share them. Ida |
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Burk28 Member
since 2009-01-08
Posts 80Michigan USA |
Thank you ida Peace of mind can only be achieved when we find peace with self |
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Earth Angel Member Empyrean
since 2002-08-27
Posts 40215Realms of Light |
 Thank you for sharing some of your fond summer memories of your youth. They have stirred some of my own. Smiling, here...   EA |
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Marc-Andre Senior Member
since 2008-12-07
Posts 501 |
Burk28, this looks more to me like prose disjointed by haphazard hits on the enter key, which in my opinion did not enhance your piece in any way. Just my personal thoughts. All the same, it IS literary. You do write with powerful imagery, you painting the scene vividly. Have a marvelous day! Mark |
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Burk28 Member
since 2009-01-08
Posts 80Michigan USA |
thank you both for taking the time Peace of mind can only be achieved when we find peace with self |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Enjoyed...James |
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