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EmmaRose
Senior Member

since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

0 posted 2016-08-24 04:38 PM

Have you noticed she asked
the sun's changed position or
the August of crickets
amid the exiting season
at the sundown of windows

or the leaning of sunflowers
where the browns storm the rose fields
in the calico colors
from the very first fallen
of the checkerboard sycamores

in the tumbling down again
at the harken of daybreak
in the slumbering summer

and I sit here surrounded

ready or not for this

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2016-08-24 04:57 PM

Whoa! This one had me scratching my head, Emma. Still, you have expressed the disquiet that surounds us from time to time, with your usual flare.

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

EmmaRose
Senior Member

since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

2 posted 2016-08-24 05:02 PM

thank you kindly
seeing too many loosening leaves, watching Summer slip away too soon again

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

3 posted 2016-08-24 06:29 PM

It'll be snowing before we know it! ~L

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

4 posted 2016-08-24 09:49 PM

You capture nature so vividly.
Really pretty poem, Emma.

Boomer Styles
Member

since 2014-03-02

Posts 194
South Side Of Success

5 posted 2016-08-26 10:15 PM

To be so keenly aware as you are Emma, is to be in harmony. The changing seasons, like the times in which we live, are not to be lamented, but embraced.

One ladle serves the soup that feeds the mouths of the many.

DaysofView
Member

since 2014-04-01

Posts 433
Just A Slice Of The Pie

6 posted 2016-08-27 10:41 PM

Boomer said it best and I agree Miss Emma!

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

Elizabeth

Moderator

Member Ascendant

since 1999-06-07

Posts 6871
Minnesota

7 posted 2016-08-31 11:09 AM

I heard the crickets chirping outside my window a couple nights ago, and a very few leaves have turned already. Not quite ready to let go of summer, but the seasons are going to turn regardless. Here we go....and stunning images!

soul drifter
Senior Member

since 2004-09-08

Posts 711
Colorado

8 posted 2016-08-31 08:11 PM

Fantastic. Breathtaking wordplay. I love this.

Keep writing. You're insanely good at it.

"Whatever makes you weird is probably your greatest asset"-Joss Whedon

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

9 posted 2016-08-31 09:48 PM

wonderful, you made me hear the music of crickets, un instant de grace

yann

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

10 posted 2016-10-07 10:20 PM

enjoyed...james

rainyday
Member
Posts 304
Heartland USA

11 posted 2016-10-08 03:25 PM

EmmaRose, Love your word choices, this flows
smoothly down the page.

Enjoyed the read..
rainyj

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