Anais Vionet Poet Free verse

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missed summer

I should’ve had a hedonistic summer, a roundup of long, sun-kissed days and even longer, undulant, kissing nights.

There are no riviera pics this year - set against the blow-out backdrop of Saint Tropez or Heraclee - with their sunlit-deliriums, cracked plaster beach bars, aromatic trailing Jasmine, lavender, umbrella pines and baking Socca.

No nights of dense, optimistic nihilism on neon-painted open-air dancefloors, or gritty, underground raves, in dark, brick-clad, light-strobed basements.

And no timeless, sun-drenched, beachside early mornings, with their moments of stillness, beauty and reprieve.

Summer feels can’t be vicarious - you have to get out there and get dirty, hmm, sandy anyway. Are there ethical implications to basking under a climate-crisis sun? Maybe, but if so, do we care?

Let’s wax poetic..

Summertime often sees us jetting off to different places.

If I could travel anywhere
let it be outer-space
not floating in darkness,
for years and years
let’s find a better way.

I’ve traveled to the moon
- on a little friction -
that isn’t even science fiction.

I’ve traveled simply by turning pages.
It didn’t take fuel and it didn’t take ages.

That was travel at the speed of thought,
but better yet, let’s travel at the speed of sight
- that’s faster than light.
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Songs for this:
Relationships by HAIM
Summer Sun by Koop
Summer Girl (Bonus Track) by HAIM

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Vincine Fallica August 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM <3 . Anais, do you post in French on Soupe de Poésie as well? And you’re going to medical school? (Medical School!) Not to mention a musicologist’s knowledge of contemporary pop music! How many ends of a candle do you have burning at one time? . I so mourn the passing of your carefree days of summer into the hamster wheel of life. :-( . . . You know of Elle Cordova? Search ‘Grammarian vs Errorist - a supervillain showdown’

Daniel Henry Rodgers August 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM Anais, O' to mourn the absence of sweaty dancefloors and cracked beach bars, but then pivot into something even more expansive like travel by thought, by sight, by page. A refusal to be confined by the literal. I think it’s a manifesto for the dreamers, the thinkers, the ones who missed the party but still found a way to dance. Blessings, Anais, Daniel Anais Vionet August 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM Thanks for the wonderful review. =]