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Dog Days Endure Sirius, rising with late summer sun, Dog star, your timeless tour has just begun. Sweet sultry lazy days beside the lake, These precious waning days of swimming fun. How I'll miss the warmth this season bestows As romance dwells in soft full moon that glows. I will miss the ducks that soon will fly south, I'll miss my sandals baring naked toes. Atavistic admiration will buy These glorious last latent days from sky Until autumn breezes in with her chill And I will welcome hues and will not sigh, For each season has beauty that's unique With shades of glory in milieu mystique. Each a blessing progressing to the next Till then, let dog days gift the joys I seek. 9-29-18 ~8th Place Premiere Contest~ Contest judged 12/1/18 (A Rubaiyat is a Quatrain with a rhyme scheme of AABA, CCDC, EEFE, etc.). Sponsor Gregory Richard Barden

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Kurt Ravidas

Date: 5/5/2019 4:29:00 PM

Your rubaiyat is brilliant, Connie. P.S.: The first week of July, if I'm not mistaken)

Charles Messina

Date: 12/1/2018 5:46:00 AM

Excellent Rubaiyat, Connie. Yes indeed, each season has it's unique beauty! Congratulations on your placement in the contest...Happy Holiday's :) Charlie

Jon Gutmacher

Date: 11/20/2018 5:06:00 PM

Connie: read several of your poems, and enjoyed all of them. Such a wide variation of style - impressive.

Connie Marcum Wong
Date: 11/20/2018 6:44:00 PM

Thank you very much Jon. I need to be readying my home for company coming for Thanksgiving, but here I am reading poetry. Lol. I appreciate your generous comment on my poetry. Thank you so much. Happy Holidays! : )

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 11/2/2018 7:21:00 PM

I can't believe this contest never closed out yet. It was such a great idea and here we are already into November. Gosh I think Greg thought this up in August. What is wrong with people around here?? Again, I sure hope to see this on the winners' list, Connie.

Connie Marcum Wong
Date: 11/2/2018 9:34:00 PM

Me too, it should close soon or winter will be here. Haha thanks xxoo

Carolyn Devonshire

Date: 10/24/2018 8:44:00 AM

Wow! You welcome each season and live in the moment, while others are just wishing time would move faster. Your descriptions of both summer and autumn - they are breathtaking, dear. I am not familiar with the Rubaiyat form, but I see how you followed the pattern of rhyme. Sending winning wishes your way! Hugs, Carolyn

Connie Marcum Wong
Date: 10/24/2018 11:32:00 AM

It was very nice to wake to see this comment from you Carolyn. I have been so busy the last few days, I have had no time to read or write. This is the first Rubaiyat I have written and I am not even sure I wrote it correctly. Thank you for your lovely comment and good wishes. Have a great day. xxoo

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 10/20/2018 11:42:00 PM

Still crossing my fingers that you win with this beauty, Connie. I have been busy all day but just keeping up on the few comments I got lately. See you later, alligator.

Connie Marcum Wong
Date: 10/21/2018 12:53:00 AM

Thank you Andrea. Yahoo was down and I couldn't get online until late. Our T.V. was out all day until 7:30pm. all over the island they said. It is working now. ;)

Caycay Jennings

Date: 10/16/2018 3:12:00 AM

I can't believe we haven't read each others Rubaiyat for the contest. Mine had a super short shelf life because I had to post another or miss a contest. (Summer Lacings) Yours is a breath of optimism, courting the beauty and gifts in all seasons, appreciating with gratitude the gift leaving, the gift coming. Very pretty and easy to feel, relate to and spend time with. Love ... CayCay

Vladislav Raven

Date: 10/7/2018 11:02:00 AM

Hi Connie, a wonderful write you place before us. It suits the Rubaiyat form so well. Summer is ending and Autumn does come. The imagery is so vivid within your gentle words. Every season has its wonders. Your words sing of Summer and the coming of the cooler seasons. I love the content Connie. This write is a fave. Have a wonderful Sunday. Hugs....Mike. XX

Connie Marcum Wong
Date: 10/7/2018 11:30:00 AM

Thank you very much Mike. My daughter sent me a youtube link of a drone flying over the colored autumn trees with music. It was lovely. I truly appreciate the fave! Blessings, Connie xxoo

Lindsay Laurie

Date: 10/4/2018 11:43:00 PM

Hello Connie … I see this poem being melancholy about the loss of summer but retaining what it produced for you - thank you Connie - Lindsay

Connie Marcum Wong
Date: 10/6/2018 6:50:00 PM

Thank you Lindsay. I feel for those facing a frigid winter. Our tropical weather keeps within about 15 degree change year round. : )

Matthew Anish

Date: 10/4/2018 10:14:00 PM

I like the from you used - Omar Khayam was the master at it. Good job here - and yes summer is gone but autumn has its delights and then comes the holiday season. Peace & Love Matthew Anish

Connie Marcum Wong
Date: 10/4/2018 11:22:00 PM

Actually autumn is my favorite season but I needed to write about summer for the contest Matthew. Thank you: )

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 10/2/2018 3:36:00 PM

I just saw Bring On Fall reappeared in the contest section. Good thing. I thought I wrote it for nothing!!

Duke Beaufort

Date: 10/1/2018 9:10:00 PM

Sirius seen now and tells us what is coming seasonally. Last night I saw alpha Centauri for the first time. So I am far from home, but it reminds me that summers always exist somewhere. Enjoy the dog days! Perhaps the appearance of Sirius is the origin of dog days? I never thought about that.

Connie Marcum Wong
Date: 10/1/2018 9:38:00 PM

Sirius is known as the dog star Duke. Thank you. : )

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 10/1/2018 3:31:00 PM

Connie, you did a FANTASTIC job with this challenge. I wrote mine just last night and need to go home to type it up and get it posted PRONTO!!! I sure hope this stunner makes the winner list.

Connie Marcum Wong
Date: 10/1/2018 4:16:00 PM

I hope it is what he is looking for Andrea. I am going to go look for yours. I have written yet another autumn poem for a contest. I will have enough for a book soon. Lol. Thank you for such a great comment. : )

Charlie Smith

Date: 10/1/2018 1:37:00 PM

Excellent work Connie, great use of form...

Caren Krutsinger

Date: 9/30/2018 10:14:00 PM

This is beautifully written Connie. I am so glad you have written this wonderful ode to summer. Good luck in the contest!

M. L. Kiser

Date: 9/30/2018 2:42:00 PM

I've been missing Summer for quite a few days now; as the chill sets in, I think about it more and more. Well penned.

Vijay Pandit

Date: 9/30/2018 7:07:00 AM

A lovely tribute you wrote to the parting summer season. Enjoyed reading your poem..excellent imagery, rhythm and flow, Connie.

Ravi Sathasivam

Date: 9/30/2018 4:21:00 AM

Excellent imagery write. Lovely romance poem. Thanks for sharing it.

Jan Allison

Date: 9/30/2018 2:50:00 AM

what gorgeous imagery Connie - I much prefer the cooler days of Autumn to the (sometimes in the UK lol)scorching summer sun:-) hugs jan xx

Carole Duet

Date: 9/29/2018 9:23:00 PM

Such a lovely poem, Connie. You must live up north and look forward to the summer but I live down south and look forward to the winter.