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Huan Yi
Member Ascendant
since 2004-10-12
Posts 6688
Waukegan

0 posted 2008-04-04 05:00 PM


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Warm sunlight
On Genesee Street
In Muskegon

There is regardless
After all a blue sky
Above Lake Michigan
Men and women
Are walking around
Again with open coats
To take in the April air

The park lawns
Have begun to green
Soon leaves and flowers
Will bud as well

Who ever imagined alone
It would come to this . . .
It really doesn’t matter
That you’re not here

To small squirrels
With bushy tails
Frisking among
The forest branches

A single sparrow
Flying over
Wooden eaves


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passing shadows
Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577
displaced
1 posted 2008-04-04 05:03 PM


lovely scene

well described

Seoulair
Senior Member
since 2008-03-27
Posts 807
Seoul S.Korea
2 posted 2008-04-04 05:07 PM


How I love this poem!!! It is like spring breeze.

And it was the first time in your poems that the  sparrow was not under wooden eaves. You finally let them fly out!!! one at a time

Beautiful.

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis
since 2008-01-25
Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
3 posted 2008-04-04 06:53 PM


John,

This is a well done, rather sad poem.  I like it loads.

Bobby

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