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secondhanddreampoet
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0 posted 2013-10-07 02:49 PM


    The Ghost of Summer

Two blue herons dance
with the smoke and mist
across a cloud-swept and
pensive grey October 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 dead-rainbow
leaves that spread all around.
All speak in silence  
of grand-inevitable transience,
change, and loss to come,
as Autumn 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 Wintry chill
or the ghost of
Summer passing by?

             --- b. e. adams (10/7/2013)


© Copyright 2013 Bruce E. Adams Jr. - All Rights Reserved
OwlSA
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Durban, South Africa
1 posted 2013-10-07 04:38 PM


You really are on a roll, Bruce!  I love the haunting quality of this impressionistic masterpiece painting in its eerie mystery and magic of hazy soft blue-grey and grey-green shadowy backgrounds to a moment of autumn splendour.  

Owl

jwesley
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Spring, Texas
2 posted 2013-10-07 06:26 PM


Terrific write, my friend.

"Two blue herons dance
with the smoke and mist
across a cloud-swept and
pensive grey October sky, . . . "  is one of those I wish I had written that, pieces.

j.

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16
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So. El Monte, California
3 posted 2013-10-07 08:32 PM


Your poetry just gets better with every read, Bruce.
                           Ida

secondhanddreampoet
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4 posted 2013-10-07 09:59 PM


Thanks so much to each of you for your lovely comment/reply postings on this 'write!'
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