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WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2009-03-05 09:09 PM

Another summer plunging with the sun
in the abyss of relentless time...

So many summers have left thus,
seemingly without trace:
I watched them shimmer silently away,
sadly wondering.

It seems like yesterday
I came out here to enjoy an early sun
an early spring on rising waters
a time full of promise.

Now the river flows gently again,
tamed waters moved by afternoon breezes;
cooling under slanting light
and tepid nights.

Rains and winds and long dark nights
are soon coming
in the wake of the blaze
of the last setting sun of summer.

Yet, it is not the end:
for what I came to learn,
I strove to understand
under the fleeting summer sun:

There remains one trip on the river,
one last launch, one final effort:
to pass the point of no return
crossing above the misty veil.

I'll stand before an eternal sunrise:
in awe, I'll remember every paddle stroke,
life bordering, hemming, adorning, guiding
my earthly path, I will give thanks.

Beyond the abyss of time
with no need to look back
I'll remember you as one with one
and enjoy my endless summer.

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

1 posted 2009-03-05 10:18 PM

Endless summer sounds good to me about now, I am sick to death of snow and rain

Loved the poem.

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

2 posted 2009-03-06 07:19 AM

Weather clearly impacts our poetic emotions, gifting us with some fine metaphors.

Thanks for warming my day.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

3 posted 2009-03-06 11:20 AM

no need to look back

yeah

nice write!

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

4 posted 2009-03-06 04:17 PM

excellent imagery ...

grand-fine ending:

"I'll stand before an eternal sunrise:
in awe, I'll remember every paddle stroke,
life bordering, hemming, adorning, guiding
my earthly path, I will give thanks.

Beyond the abyss of time
with no need to look back
I'll remember you as one with on
and enjoy my endless summer(!)"

Namaskar! - [The light within me honors the light within you!] ...

MUCH applause for this 'penning'!

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