Some April Day

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This poem is a rather hard to classify. It is composed of couplets, but written very much in the style of free verse. It might even be called a "corrupted sonnet." It was inspired by my 98-year-old friend who, from time to time, expresses his desire to die. Even though he is very healthy for his age, he slips into depression from time to time because he can no longer do most of the things that bought him pleasure for most of his life.

Another June day this second of October Warm and breezy a single cloud hanging over The summer he relished with pleasure is past Despite its poignancy, he lingers long and fast It will slink away tomorrow's fonder oblivion Marking one more day before he will leave on Life's journey into autumn's blessed stillness Thinks he the more rather than the less About the value of those days which lie ahead Faith and hope wrestle with gloom and dread. Some April day, perhaps, a fourth of June He will still be here and singing another tune He will have made it through another winter Will come forth from the dark tomb he entered That June day the second of October Warm and breezy a single cloud hanging over. FIRST PLACE WINNER Brian Strand's PS Contest March 9, 2021

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Constance La France

Date: 3/9/2021 5:40:00 AM

Milton, congratulations on your win in Brian's contest with this excellent couplet/free verse poem _Constance

L Milton Hankins
Date: 3/9/2021 8:51:00 AM

Thanks so much, Constance. This is one of my favorites. Your congrats are so much appreciated.

Silent One

Date: 10/25/2020 9:51:00 AM

Well written poem.. WE do have a mix of weather, which make it feel like a different month..

L Milton Hankins
Date: 10/26/2020 2:37:00 PM

Thanks. I felt like the interesting mixture of months and seasons helped move the poem in the direction I wanted it to take.