Summer Has Begun: Concert In Yellow

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This is my first sonnet.

The distant brass haystacks tune on shorn ground.
Vanilla fence posts chime in saffron sun.
Adjacent jonquils trumpet lemon sound
as amber goldenrod and china mums 
in stil de grain complete a trio 'round
high jasmine shrubs, which in the octaves run
aureolin to beige. Nearby is found
a vegetable garden where blond onions,
squash and carrots in harmony abound
with notes of maize and amber. Faun melons 
grace a clef of trellis where ecru-crowned
warblers and the sunglow-breasted Hutton's
Vireo twitter in tune with corn-downed,
bumblebees and drone: summer has begun.

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Chris Green

Date: 6/19/2017 11:48:00 AM

This was very cool Dale and I always had a fondness for poems with the word beige in them. Really wildly abstract and so well written, this should do well in the contest.

Dale Gregory Cozart
Date: 6/19/2017 12:05:00 PM

Thanks, Chris. I wasn't so sure since it was my first try at this form. Very rigorous process, at least for me.