Summer's Withered Bloom

The carcass of beauty spent and done picked clean by the scavengers of time; whose fading memories of summer ask for no quarter and offer none. Winter winds tango with scattered leaves in step with a different drummer; spinning fragments of color and light into chromatic threads, Autumn weaves. A scarecrow showing signs of neglect, looks outlandish, with no crops in sight; a hobo haphazardly homespun, on guard, with naught but mud to protect. When fledgling goslings learn how to fly, geese follow the monarch butterfly; and flock south, their honks splitting the sky, bidding Summer's withered bloom goodbye.

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Date: 3/3/2020 4:41:00 PM
Simply exquisite, Emile. Your imagery and rhymes are pristine. Congratulations on a well-deserved #1 for the muse contest ~ John
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Date: 3/3/2020 9:09:00 PM
Thanks John, I appreciate your wonderful comments my friend, Emile.
Date: 3/3/2020 6:53:00 AM
Congratulation Emile: A wonderful winning poem and proudly added to my Favs. Best, SuZ
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Date: 3/3/2020 7:42:00 AM
Thanks so much Suzanne, I appreciate it my friend, Emile.
Date: 3/2/2020 9:31:00 PM
Very nicely penned Emile, Congrats on your win
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Date: 3/3/2020 7:40:00 AM
Thanks Joseph, I appreciate your support my friend, Emile.
Date: 2/16/2020 11:19:00 PM
Nicely done, Emile, love the first stanza.Good luck in the contest.
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Date: 2/17/2020 9:18:00 AM
Thanks Eve, I appreciate it my friend, Emile.
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