Sonnet On a 5-5-'55 Guy
The fifth day of the fifth month of the year:
For me this is no ordinary day.
As quickly as spring blossoms, it is here
and just as quickly, May 5th fades away.
Most likely it will not look different from
the other days that make up Merry May,
but it’s a time I’m likely to become
a bit nostalgic, letting my thoughts stray. . .
to someone in my past. For all I know
he could be dead, forever gone from me!
I cannot think of that. It can’t be so.
It has to be that he's in revelry!
I’ll picture him May 5th as I always do -
becoming that same age I’ll soon be too.
By Andrea Dietrich
5/3/12
For Carol Brown's
Memories of May Poetry Contest
Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2012
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