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secondhanddreampoet
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0 posted 2016-08-06 01:11 PM


     Summer Passing

Two blue herons dance
with the smoke and mist
across a cloud-swept and
pensive grey late August sky,
here on this wind-flickering
  forest edge
where lichens slowly spread,
like a lovely velveteen disease,
along a broken stone wall  
and path to nowhere
through the woodland moss
and ferns spreading all around.
All speak in silence  
of grand-inevitable transience,
change, and loss to come,
as Summer tarries for one
last bright-delicious lingering
moment of the ‘now,’
like a half full glass of
wine forgotten.
Is that distant,
wistful sigh just
a hint of Autumn chill
or the ghost of
Summer passing by?

             --- b. e. adams ('here' in the quicksilver 'now')


© Copyright 2016 Bruce E. Adams Jr. - All Rights Reserved
Ari Squire
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1 posted 2016-08-06 10:10 PM


A lovely day in the woodland. Of what value would it be if we were to allow it to slip by us unnoticed. You've a keen eye Bruce and you translate perfectly.

Loving Linny Jean is poetry.

DaysofView
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2 posted 2016-08-07 02:59 AM


Very nice poem as you always know what to say and you always know how to say it in a nice way.

I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather...not like the passengers screaming in the back of his car.

RedStoneEB
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3 posted 2016-08-08 03:51 PM


nicely written poem nice to read something that has a glimpse of beauty in it.

RS

Redstart
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4 posted 2016-08-08 05:11 PM


Where the natural world is concerned: You paint pictures with your words.
secondhanddreampoet
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5 posted 2016-08-08 06:37 PM


Thanks to each and all of you for commenting on this ever-so-humble li'l "poetic scribble!"
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