Being Young

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Desktop Lux > girl, woman, young, female, summer, daisies, flowers ...

Then ... We dabbled our toes in soft summer air Speckled with thistle, dancing ... Pressing our backs to the meadow, bare Honey-dew sweet, our bee-tickled feet Your tortoise-shell eyes, entrancing ... Skin touching skin, too willful for glancing. (How we wasted such youth ... being young) ... then ... We blew our kisses to cauliflower clouds Swimming in Van Gogh grasses ... Curtsying sunflowers waving their shrouds The lemon sun shined on our virtues, entwined Your scent sweet as warm molasses ... Lips brushing lips, amidst giggled passes. (How we wasted such youth ... being young) ... then ... We spun with sparrows, a strain, to the sky Plucked with an eager intent ... Born upon wings as a burgeoning sigh Hot-spice afternoon, thus charmed us to swoon Too impatient to care what it meant ... Wherever urge led us, we heedlessly went. (How we wasted such youth ... being young) ... How we tasted life's TRUTH ... being young. ~ 2nd Place ~ in the "Brian's Choice P, Any Form, Any Theme" Poetry Contest, Brian Strand, Judge & Sponsor.

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Gideon Idudje

Date: 6/13/2020 1:07:00 PM

Beautifully message To the youth Now To caution

Lonna Blodgett

Date: 5/22/2020 9:31:00 PM

Your perception of "young" has such a beautiful sensational soft and passive spirit to it. I could easily read this and be utterly rejuvenated from my golden years. Thank you Greg

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 5/23/2020 9:15:00 PM

What a wonderfully joyous and heartfelt comment, Lonna, I'm so pleased you like my poem! Many thanks and blessings to you, My Friend! :o) <3

Edward Ibeh

Date: 5/22/2020 2:43:00 PM

Magnificent! I really enjoyed this one, Greg:-) I personally would've ranked it 1st place. Stay well and safe out there, bud!

Gregory Richard Barden
Date: 5/22/2020 3:38:00 PM

Thanks so much, Brother, I greatly appreciate the kind words - I thought this perhaps was worth a 1st, but I'll take what I can get - beggars can't be choosers, right? ;-) Blessings to you, My Man! :o)