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Summer Speeds By

Old brown leaves from last fall, spread down the wooded hillside
Soon to be covered with new colorful leaves this year
I passed a tree already turning a bright color of red
I suppose it won’t be long now, before the rest follow
The blanket of green fern are standing tall beneath the pines
The sun fleets in and out of the large passing clouds
Some gray ones lurk above, wanting to bring more rain
But, the ground is already wet, soaked from earlier times
That flattened leaves, and turned the colors in the trees
                        --- As summer speeds by ---

Heidi Sands

8/20/17

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Russell Sivey Date: 8/21/2017 4:35:00 AM Yes, go summer go....away! I don't care much for summer, too HOT! But your poem I do care for, I think it's wonderful! I really enjoyed the calm and peaceful feeling you expressed within your tender poem here my friend! What a fantastic piece, full of life breathing in for Autumn...Love it!! Great Work!! Login to Reply Heidi Sands Date: 8/21/2017 5:52:00 AM Autumn will be here soon for you Russell. Your comments brighten my morning. Thank you :)

Emile Pinet Date: 8/20/2017 4:35:00 PM The conscious mind extends itself beyond our norms and we enter a world composed of reality defused with imagination, where nature is often tentative and so precious as to awe us with its beauty and scare us with its fragility. Well written. Emile. Login to Reply Heidi Sands Date: 8/20/2017 7:42:00 PM Thank you for your visit and comment Emile! :)

Joseph May Date: 8/20/2017 3:46:00 PM Summer soon will give way to the colors of autumn...Nicely penned Heidi Login to Reply Heidi Sands Date: 8/20/2017 3:54:00 PM Yes it will Joseph. Then we will have brilliant colors :) Thank you. !

Vijay Pandit Date: 8/20/2017 1:09:00 PM You paint a picture of a summer about to depart--good work, Heidi! Login to Reply Heidi Sands Date: 8/20/2017 1:38:00 PM Thank you. It isn't quite here to passing yet, but just starting! :)

Winged Warrior Date: 8/20/2017 12:56:00 PM As summer speeds by...your verse will last forever...nicely written Hiedi...^WW^ Login to Reply Heidi Sands Date: 8/20/2017 1:37:00 PM Thank you so much WW!! :)

Nette Onclaud Date: 8/20/2017 12:38:00 PM summer left a month ago here, and we are experiencing monsoon rains...lovely poem with a fine ending, heidi..huggs Login to Reply Heidi Sands Date: 8/20/2017 12:42:00 PM Wow nette! Be careful with those rains. We have had a lot of rain spring and summer and torrential the other day. Thanks for the comment on this :)