A Finding

A FINDING

A sudden moon
Splashes gold
On evening clouds
And brightly dusts obscurity

Revealing within
Things    people and places
Too profoundly hidden
To be forgotten

Call it findings
Those sticky stuffs of soul
Have lay alive and twitching
Through wandering years

Vividly clear happenings
Of childhood
Or (now musing) perhaps
Even another life

Such nocturnal painting
Challenges all meaning
And replaces
Current existence

      Like
The crisp night
Lights up! – 
A boy and his dog
On the green

Walking toward their home
In the village
On a most magnificent
Autumn day

Dave Austin

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016



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Date: 11/18/2016 4:09:00 PM
Well well Daver, I really like the drift in this easy reading write, emerging memory.. Vivid description, and strong allusion to joy of living.' hope all's well there..)
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Daver Austin
Date: 11/21/2016 12:19:00 PM
Thanks for the visit, Joe
Date: 11/14/2016 9:01:00 PM
I see Frank visited you and HE knows good poetry when he sees it!!
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Date: 11/13/2016 9:14:00 AM
Love this write, Daver! It paints vivid and colourful scenes of this "boy and his dog". Thumbs up to you and your magnificent imagination! Keep well, Hugs, Mikki
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Michelle Mac Donald
Date: 11/14/2016 6:31:00 AM
Computer? Useless trying to get into my email, or open a new one. A policeman dropped by and said not to touch it? This is a gateway to MY friends and MY family. Really must suck to be them. Happy hugs to you! Mikki
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Daver Austin
Date: 11/13/2016 10:14:00 AM
Hi, Mikki. Tell me, is your computer working yet? I'd like to send you some e-mails. Hugs a bunch, Dave
Date: 11/13/2016 3:38:00 AM
An amazing write:) Congratulations on your POTD, Daver:)
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Daver Austin
Date: 11/13/2016 10:22:00 AM
Thanks for the visit. Love, daver
Date: 11/12/2016 12:26:00 AM
Well done and congrats
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Daver Austin
Date: 11/13/2016 10:29:00 AM
Thanks, Rick. Love, daver
Date: 11/11/2016 7:57:00 PM
Hi Daver, You penned a beautiful poem with amazing Imagery. Congratulations on getting the poem of the day. It was well deserved: -) Alexis
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Daver Austin
Date: 11/14/2016 10:31:00 AM
Thanks for the visit. Love, daver
Date: 11/11/2016 1:24:00 PM
So happy to see that your poem received POTD :) Congratulations!
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Daver Austin
Date: 11/14/2016 10:44:00 AM
Thanks. Now I'll catch one of yours. Love, daver
Date: 11/11/2016 10:30:00 AM
What a writer/poet you are! Beautiful. Congratulations!
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Daver Austin
Date: 11/11/2016 11:05:00 AM
Thanks. This was an actual experience. Love, daver
Date: 11/11/2016 8:29:00 AM
This is so deserving of poem of the day. Just great poetry. Congratulations.
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Daver Austin
Date: 11/11/2016 11:13:00 AM
Thanks, old friend. Love, daver
Date: 11/11/2016 7:37:00 AM
Congratulations Daver on POTD. Well deserved.
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Daver Austin
Date: 11/11/2016 11:21:00 AM
Thanks for the visit. Love, daver
Date: 11/10/2016 8:37:00 PM
oh my and this one is even better than the last. the tone of it, all that it implies. So melancholy. So nostalgic. a FAVE
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Date: 11/10/2016 1:40:00 PM
I enjoyed the words and familiar feel of this poem. It touched me ... CayCay
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Daver Austin
Date: 11/11/2016 11:38:00 AM
Thanks for the visit. Love, daver
Date: 11/10/2016 10:26:00 AM
Absolutely enchanting :) Love the poem and it's a fav.
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Date: 11/10/2016 9:58:00 AM
WOW! WOW! WOW! A HUGE FAV! A brilliant write. This is one example of what poetry should be.
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