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Seasonal Color

Why can’t you stay? Your pretty views are skies’ cerulean and the blues of sweet wild blooms that I can see beneath a sun that shines for me like lemon crests on cockatoos! Watermelon and honeydews - I savor flavors in chartreuse. But lilac days, how soon they flee! Why can’t you stay? Your lavender of June imbues my soul with joy. Bring no adieus! Let coral sun gleam endlessly on aquamarine of a sea turned tangerine. Bright saffron hues - Why can’t you stay? Aug. 15, 2017 for Dale Gregory Cozart's Seasonal Color Contest

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Susan Ashley

Date: 8/19/2017 3:57:00 PM

Hi Andrea, back again, congratulations on your placement! Well done! :)

Lin Lane

Date: 8/19/2017 2:20:00 PM

Good job, Andrea, congrats!

Vijay Pandit

Date: 8/19/2017 12:59:00 PM

Congrats Andrea!

Winged Warrior

Date: 8/19/2017 12:30:00 PM

Back to... Congrats!!! Andrea....nicely done my friend...

Dale Gregory Cozart

Date: 8/19/2017 12:28:00 PM

Congratulations on your 3rd Place win! This was a very tough contest to judge. Thank you so much for taking the time to enter.

Joanna Daniel

Date: 8/18/2017 9:03:00 AM

This is a sure fave, Andrea, hope this one wins:)

Winged Warrior

Date: 8/16/2017 10:28:00 PM

Well crafted my friend...best of luck Andrea...god bless...^WW^

Eve Roper

Date: 8/16/2017 8:37:00 PM

Beautiful poem for the contest, Andrea, you out did yourself. Good luck in the contest.~*

Harry Horsman

Date: 8/16/2017 3:16:00 PM

wow this is amazing, you've coloured this reader's day..

Pipping Stars

Date: 8/16/2017 6:17:00 AM

the way you bring your words together in this one is stunning... you have an extraordinary way with word arrangements. ... excellent ... indeed ...

Russell Sivey

Date: 8/16/2017 4:35:00 AM

yes, I love it when Summer's OVER, lol! I love Autumn and everything within the Fall! I hate the heat, I lived in Texas for 20 years and got so sick of the heat! But the winters there were magnificent...just like your poem, so wonderful! (like my segue there?) I really enjoyed reading your beautiful poem here this morning Andrea...you have amazed me yet again how you put all those colors into a Rondeau! Very impressive! Great Work!!

Robert Johnson

Date: 8/15/2017 8:37:00 PM

Green and red and frosty white. When Spring comes we bid adieu. It's not the same when Summer's through. Just finished a watermelon. MMMMMM. :)

Susan Ashley

Date: 8/15/2017 7:49:00 PM

Hi Andrea, beautiful rondeau done to perfection with the colors of summer and the line 'lemon crests on cockatoos' is a killer line :) good luck!

Ilene Bauer

Date: 8/15/2017 7:32:00 PM

oh, this is just gorgeous, andrea!

Joseph May

Date: 8/15/2017 6:54:00 PM

You did this beautifully Andrea...it sings with color...

Matthew Anish

Date: 8/15/2017 4:49:00 PM

Robert Frost famously wrote "Nothing gold can stay". Stimulating poem! Recently I had 3 poems in the Amulet poetry magazine. This website is very supportive of poets! Peace & Love Matthew Anish

Kudzai Mhangwa

Date: 8/15/2017 3:20:00 PM

You are a master of word Andrea! And you demonstrate it once again in this beautiful piece! All the best in the contest!

Frederic Parker

Date: 8/15/2017 1:18:00 PM

somehow when reading I had a vision of a female singing while skipping along twirling an umbrella beneath a sun filled sky...way to happy a poem...good luck in the contest

Dean Wood

Date: 8/15/2017 12:46:00 PM

Very poetic! You have a great style Andrea and I think your use of Dale's list of colors is great! -- Dean

Mike Gentile

Date: 8/15/2017 12:10:00 PM

I really enjoyed this, Good Luck in the contest,

Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 8/15/2017 12:01:00 PM

- Do not cry because it's over ... smile because it happened, Andrea :) - Beautifully written :) - Good luck in the contest - hugs // Anne-Lise :)