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Open Poetry #35

The overthrow of summer

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2005-03-18 02:43 PM

Beyond the reach of summer
autumn pirouettes;
slow at first, sensually,
capturing the feel
of what is yet to be.

Swirling so, still unseen,
passionate desire,
the force behind the death
of midsummer days,
serenades in tuneful voice
the pre-ordained overthrow
of summer’s honesty.

Beats sun its wrath to land
but strength like fantasy
succumbs to reality
and weakened are its rays
from heart into heartlands.

The hand of destiny
an unenlightened entity
resplendent in denial
of summer’s need to live
in the fullness of new growth.

Unstable on this platform
of earth’s restlessness
I become as the summer sun
sucked into the vortex
of a one-time memory
dormant till the call
to rise up as before.

Green to brown, leaves to ground,
and who can presuppose
the worth of withdrawal
of love’s powerhouse, the sun?

Helen / 18 March 2005

DavePage
Member Elite

since 2003-12-21

Posts 2917

1 posted 2005-03-18 02:50 PM

I need to read this a few times Helen.

I'll print it out and come back on it.

Dave

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2005-03-18 02:56 PM

Hi, Dave - Maybe this is one of those pieces that only makes sense to me but summer here is definitely on the way out like so many other things in life.

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