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JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

0 posted 2012-08-11 12:38 PM

Memory’s Café

Summertime
when we were young
strumming chords
pretending words
to songs we sung…

Life then
was such a delight,
careless, forgiving,
we were eager only
for a cool evening breeze,
a star filled night, and
boastful moonlight…

Pleasure in those moments –
such glorious nights.
We, too young to know
to treasure such a time.
Too young
to see beyond the next,
and the next.

Summer gave way to fall:
Winter was too soon,
and around us all;
and the moments
of summer nights
fleeting, and
somewhere along the way
those summer nights
stopped to dine
in memory’s café…

.
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Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2012-08-11 04:16 AM

You recall those special summers of youth so beautifully, dear JL. Your memory is uplifting, though delicately veiled with melancholy.

To write about it now with such intensity, makes it a very pleasant experience of now.

Margherita

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2012-08-11 07:22 AM

You're so right, JL. We gave not a thought of what we had and what it was all about. Now, of course they are just memories, beautiful memories, but memories nonetheless.

~*~ If they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

Startime1955
Senior Member

since 2012-04-22

Posts 1072
Alberta, Canada

3 posted 2012-08-11 09:21 AM

I love your trip to Memory's Cafe...it brought back memories of my own...a wonderful read...*BIG HUGS* I love your signature qoute...perfect

*may our dreams ever be magical*

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

4 posted 2012-08-11 12:24 PM

Thank you, Startime1955.
I am glad you enjoyed, and that this brought back memories for you.

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

5 posted 2012-08-11 02:27 PM

JL so true about summer nights and the memories they hold. Enjoyed this very much

Lori

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

6 posted 2012-08-16 09:58 PM

Nice...James

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

7 posted 2012-08-21 01:01 PM

What a tender and forgiving look back! If we'd known then what we know now... but we had too many tomorrows then to stop and consider each moment a precious gift. *S* Beautiful write!

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

8 posted 2012-08-21 01:14 PM

Thank you sweet, suthern gal!
Your replies are always so uplifting.

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

9 posted 2012-08-21 05:53 PM

Wow, great piece, my friend ... in my youth it was called "Frost Top" and equally divided between "Dairy Queen". Everything else as you described...

Cool...

j.

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

10 posted 2012-08-21 05:59 PM

Dairy Queen... that's the ticket.
Thank you my friend

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

11 posted 2012-08-21 06:43 PM

It's amazing the way the characteristics of the seasons also depict the transitions of human life from youthful folly of summer all the way up the cold isolation of winter. What we were too naive to appreciate then, we most certainly do now in this cafe you've depicted. Nicely done.

Michael

ebonygirl
Member Elite

since 2011-07-14

Posts 2000
California U.S.A

12 posted 2012-08-21 07:23 PM

Enjoyed the lovely vision of (many) summer nights in your poem, JL.
Ms. E

miscellanea
Member Elite

since 2004-06-24

Posts 4060
OH

13 posted 2012-08-21 07:47 PM

From the title on down, I love this! Book marked!

Miscellanea

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

14 posted 2012-08-22 12:25 PM

Michael:  Thank you kind sir!  I truly appreciate your words in reply.

Ms. E: you are so right, many summer nights that stick to my ribs like an
oatmeal breakfast…
       Thank you.

miscellanea:  I am so glad you liked it.  Your words have me grinning ear to ear.
                      Thank you!!

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

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