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Ode To Joy of Changing Seasons

Sunlight at an angle dancing through colored leaves Cool nights to snuggle beneath the sheets; warm days of ease Last of gardens harvest; goodbye to summer's bees Joyful time to harvest soon days a breeze Pumpkins, winter squash, turnips, and peas Food in bounty stored away for many days Christmas will be upon us in just a very few days The yard will be raked again and again to rid of leaves Garden vegetables will be stored also cooking of peas For right after Christmas comes New Years Day with ease The howling winds will blow and it won't be just a breeze But now all the bugs have disappeared_gone are the bees We will not have to worry with yellow jackets or bees As the night grow longer and shorter the winter days March soon will come in bringing its strong breeze Those indominable buds show forth on the trees soon leaves We will float into warm days and beauty of spring with ease Now we will have eaten most of those delicious peas Soon in the newly planted garden_those early June Peas Newly hatched from their hiding places comes those bees Just lying around in the hammock with all this ease These wonderful times_joy of longer days Joy, oh! joy and joy again with spring's green leaves Soft and gentle comes a blowing spring's warm breeze But there is one less chore now for there is no raking leaves Afternoon in the lazy hammock oh what ease Glad that in the garden and Pampas Grass stay those bees These times in life are just fun and a zephyr breeze Summer comes with the picking, shelling, and freezing peas These times are wonderful long sunny days But soon slowly fade, then the change in those leaves Summer still has a lazy few days with comfy ease Even if the pollen draws those hungry stinging bees From the west and north come a much drier breeze How thankful that we have those great peas Soon fade those longer sunlit sunny days No raking leaves in winter, only by firelight with ease and read All those pesky bees gone now, on the currents winter's breeze brings flurries Now dine on peas put away to eat on cold fruitless days of old man winter

Copyright © | Year Posted 2010




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Date: 12/17/2010 4:30:00 PM
congrats on the win in the contest!! Well done! We saw a small snake at the preacher's house steps Thursday.
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Date: 12/13/2010 11:11:00 AM
Congratulations on your win Sara in Deborah Guzzi's contest. Love, Carol
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Date: 12/11/2010 4:26:00 PM
glad to see this very interesting sestina on the winners' list, SAra. It's one I very much enjoyed reading. LUv, Andrea
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Date: 12/9/2010 4:11:00 AM
Congratulations on this well deserved win in the contest of Deb, Sara
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Date: 12/8/2010 8:21:00 PM
Such a beautiful portrayal of changing seasons. many congratulations for this win.
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Date: 12/8/2010 6:06:00 PM
Congrats Sara on your big win in Debbie's contest with this super write and entry my friend.. enjoy another top ten win and spot on the winners list tonight with luv..
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Date: 12/8/2010 2:20:00 PM
I new you could give us a WINNER Sara Congrad's on this fine write! Light & Love
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Date: 11/24/2010 2:50:00 PM
Plowing, planting, preening, picking, packaging, and preparing. Seasonal punnery all around! Amazing use of garden-variety peas to describe the ebb and flow of the four seasons!
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Date: 11/21/2010 5:08:00 PM
Good, sara, I like much better now how those last three sentences read. I sure hope Deb will like this one. It's so very "homey" Luv, Andrea
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Date: 11/19/2010 2:22:00 PM
You have chosen a very nice theme to write the sestina one of the most difficult form to write, Sara
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Date: 11/19/2010 11:45:00 AM
Heart + beauty dear Sara' (Lin~Ra)
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Date: 11/19/2010 10:36:00 AM
Wonderfuly written Sara, this a hard form for me to grasp, but you make it so easy...Love Michael
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Date: 11/19/2010 8:59:00 AM
Delightful poem Sara.....those Sestina's are a most difficult form...Good luck!!
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Date: 11/19/2010 7:13:00 AM
Beautiful completion of your Sestina Sara.. good luck iif for the contest by Debbie.. this is an amazing finished product luv... wonderful visuals.. and intense lines.. be blessed this happy weekend with luv..
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Date: 11/18/2010 9:51:00 PM
love the filing your verse give coziness I feel like i should cuddle ... Thanks ...
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Date: 11/18/2010 9:23:00 PM
I love this one Sara, i like the way old man winters sound.. Sure well this comming from a Texann,, enjoyed your poem.. Well i just don't like the effect that happens when winter arrives,..p.d.
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Date: 11/18/2010 5:31:00 PM
Oh yeah! You almost got it! Just the last 3 lines/ line 1 uses leaves & ease midline (not as an end word) Line 2 bees & breeze (in this order) line 3 peas & days in that order..Then all done and marvelous what a great JOB!Loved the topic too!(7)
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Date: 11/18/2010 4:05:00 PM
Excellent sestina, Sara. You write very well in this complex form. You mention many things I like about the change in seasons, especially the hibernation of those pesky bees. Enjoy those fading sunlit days in Georgia, my friend. Still hoping to get to Callaway. Best wishes in Deb's contest! Love, Carolyn
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Date: 11/18/2010 4:02:00 PM
Second time on a Sestina...Wasn't any easier the second time around..Sara
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