Midnight Thoughts Of The Passing Summer

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Open Poetry #33

Midnight Thoughts Of The Passing Summer

ice
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since 2003-05-17

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Pennsylvania

0 posted 2004-08-07 09:14 PM

Seven months have fled since new years eve,
Witching hours into dawns;
Pencil-slashes through days, drawn diagonal
Leaves torn off calendars; count them..
Seven, dropped like something common
Into waste paper baskets.
*
Shaken awake by midnight thoughts:
Noting the seasons speed of passing,
I brail the page of August,
Peek at months that name the last quarter;
Touch pictures of autumn
Leaves (tinged) blood, and golden, think
How slowly the summer comes, how fast it's gone;
How swiftly returns (and lingers on) winter.

Kethry
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

1 posted 2004-08-07 09:41 PM

This is wonderfully descriptive I could feel it, smell it and almost taste it. I particularly liked the image of diagonal crossings marking off the days.

Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind. Unknown

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

2 posted 2004-08-07 09:45 PM

Ford, how very true this is. You say it with such eloquence.

....jo

Susan
Member Ascendant

since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

3 posted 2004-08-07 09:51 PM

Yes, yes, the truth of the passing of summer most eloquently expressed -- enjoyed.

Susan

Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind.

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

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Listening to every heart

4 posted 2004-08-08 08:24 AM

I'm sure, had you meant this
to be a hanky alert, you would
have said so...

so perhaps it's just and only me
that teared up with this

Karilea - if I whisper, will you listen? Keeping in mind, I must stand close...

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

5 posted 2004-08-08 08:35 AM

ice
Wonderful discription, enjoyed the read.

inkedgoddess
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-11-19

Posts 7392
Ohio

6 posted 2004-08-08 04:24 PM

feeling this too
wondering whos sadder me or the mother tree
watching another leaf sail into the distance

muted

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since 2004-01-15

Posts 2949
Elapsing, Eclipsing, Evolving

7 posted 2004-08-08 04:36 PM

very nice
you swept the emotion into me...
felt this

Krawdad
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since 2001-01-03

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8 posted 2004-08-08 09:14 PM

and are you defined by that lingering season?

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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displaced

9 posted 2004-08-09 01:42 AM

indeed

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