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Ryan
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0 posted 2000-06-18 11:04 PM


The Last Nights of Summer

The whirling neon-pink disc
flits in and out of the shadows
of another suburbian twilight
while far below
the rows of fickle streetlamps
illuminate our return to childhood.
With a sweeping insanity,
the game is played under
care-free skies filled with
the infinite possibilities of more
until we become lost within
the waves of a two-gallon jug of life.
And there we remain afloat,
dancing away our nights
beneath summer's full moons
and tempting the fates of tomorrow
from the sugary straits of tonight
until the nearing dawn arrives
and sends us scurrying
down our separate trails.


I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
—Jack Kerouac


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1 posted 2000-06-18 11:40 PM


Ryan~ I liked this one very much!   -SEA
Poet deVine
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2 posted 2000-06-19 09:39 AM


I also like this one very much! Nice to see you here.  
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3 posted 2000-06-19 12:49 PM


And there we remain afloat,
dancing away our nights
beneath summer's full moons
and tempting the fates of tomorrow
from the sugary straits of tonight
until the nearing dawn arrives
and sends us scurrying
down our separate trails.
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wow, love the imagery and the feeling of night you have captured in this
very nice writing indeed
jm

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4 posted 2000-06-19 01:27 PM


what fun Ryan!
I liked this muchly
~H

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5 posted 2000-06-21 04:57 AM


Sounds like a wonderful night of fun to me.
Ryan
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6 posted 2000-06-24 06:32 PM


Thanks to everyone who voted for this poem.  It's another favorite of mine.

Ryan


I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
—Jack Kerouac


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7 posted 2000-06-24 06:36 PM


Ryan, I loved this portrait of a summer fling that you wished could be more -- got both the sugar and the solace. Thanks for sharing this.

Mike

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8 posted 2000-06-24 07:11 PM


Took me back to those long summer nights.  Loved this....Bonnie
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9 posted 2000-06-24 07:38 PM


What a gentle whisper.
Good work!


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10 posted 2000-07-10 10:50 AM


(~,^)

Sunny

~~~Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller ~~~

When you want to be loved, look within...KRJ


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