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Those Summer Days

the last days of exams and school, and beginning of hot summer, licking fresh ice lollies to cool, eat mangoes without number! no more reading no more homework, all of the day is mine to spend, under shady banian we perch, till the heat fades and the day ends. at night we sleep in the open, on the first floor verandah bed, and search amongst stars good omen, and have gran all our fortunes read! three hot months of fun, play and joy, in peak heat of May, June, July, those idyll days spent as a boy, are here to haunt and make me cry! Written 10/09/2021 John Lawless sponsored Rhyme checked in RZ 8 syllables each line with abab rhyme sequence

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Date: 9/10/2021 6:11:00 PM
Ah, Krish, it is this time of the year here when I want to go back to May! I suffer from seasonal depression, so it's time to turn on the special lights I have. Your poem is so well-written, so fine, and brought back some splendid memories of the beginning of summers when I was a boy. Thanks!
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L Milton Hankins
Date: 9/11/2021 12:06:00 PM
I generally go to a warmer place for at least part of the winter months here. I will be off to Mexico for a week in November, spend a lot of January and February in Florida. At least those are my current plans.
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Krish Radhakrishna
Date: 9/10/2021 10:53:00 PM
Milton, thanks and nice to know we have similar childhood memories! I break the winter blues by taking some great photos or travelling. I go away to Dubai or some other warmer part of the world. But my childhood days were the best, shall never get them back!

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