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Huan Yi
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0 posted 2012-03-08 10:55 AM


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The sun
Glowers down
On a wide
Concrete bridge
For a country road
Somewhere outside
Gary Indiana

It is summer
Hot and still
There are mosquitoes
Bugs without names
Whose piercing whines
Tear at the sultry air

The weeds smell bad
But boys will be boys
One is young for adventuring
Once and then no more

And so they trek
In sweat through heat
In search of the source
Of that mythical Nile—
A row of frogs
In shallow water


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Juju
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In your dreams
1 posted 2012-03-08 11:18 AM


I like this one alot

Juju

-Juju

-"So you found a girl
Who thinks really deep thoughts
What's so amazing about really deep thoughts " Silent all these Years, Tori Amos

Huan Yi
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2 posted 2012-03-08 11:35 AM


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Thanks Juju


John


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LeeJ
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Posts 13296

3 posted 2012-03-08 12:05 PM


John
I felt and saw the heat rising off the concrete bridge, and felt great trial and tribulations...

very nicely done.

JamesMichael
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Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
4 posted 2012-03-10 03:30 AM


Nice...I did a few of these myself...James
katahdin
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ME. In the Shadow of the Mt.
5 posted 2012-03-10 03:51 AM


Makes me long for summer! Nicely done!
Kat >^..^<

ice
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since 2003-05-17
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Pennsylvania
6 posted 2012-03-10 05:34 AM


This was me at nine years old,
I remember those smells, the heat, the frogs..
only it was south eastern Pennsylvania, but the state doesn't matter..because where this poem takes me is universal.


"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
Carl Sandburg

tracie66
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since 2000-01-18
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Australia
7 posted 2012-03-10 06:43 AM


great imagery and another fine write

Love is the life of the soul...
It is the harmony of the universe
                        — W. E. Channing

Huan Yi
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since 2004-10-12
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Waukegan
8 posted 2012-03-10 11:11 AM


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Thank you all

It was a flashback to those frogs
that brought this on

Thanks again


John


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