Goodbye August Poems

Feet in the sand, do you feel free?
Breathe in the sunlight
Sky blending in the sea
Skin glowing bright

Make memories, they say
Let them bring you back
You'll see...

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August whispers its gentle goodbye
Painting the moments in fragile sighs
Escaping summer with its blue sky

Listening to winds as they chastise
Blurring all hopes, all dreams and...

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August finds me on the sun deck
Ugly sweat running down my neck
Great time to jump into the pool
Using the blue water is so cool
Swimming I...

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Extra bitter are the tannins found in this ink
My ignorance caused this heart to sink
Remembering you waving on a grassy knoll
Ice is all that covers...

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Summer is ending 
hot days filled with outside fun, 
our sleeping in late. 
August ends our days off ~ done, 
back to school we must...

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In that late August morning
millions of eyes were crying
for the death of their king...
they longed for his voice that was beyond thrilling!
Elvis' life suddenly ended...

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the raindrops  commit suicide  on the window
as if they wanted to wash the goodbye signs
with the blood of the water,
- the rain today...

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By August end, leaves curl on trees;
sun low- our long days, lose.
Deep shades of green fade in degrees
with brown and rusty hues.

Soon time to say...

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today shadows summer
change of weather
whispers of passage
nature’s call
living and dying
stillness of clouds
angels linger
old loves
never die
whisper winds
story of august
winds whisper
die never
loves old
linger angels
clouds of stillness
dying and...

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you came
and then
in a breeze
~ gone

left me
to deal
with the
aftermath



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on August 5, 2021...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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You could say that life is a lot of leavings, departures, waving goodbyes, saying goodbye-regretting that you didn’t say I love you enough times or...

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It started out as a summer fling
Just a short period of bliss
In the end there would be no ring
Only time that I would miss

It broke...

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The people who knew you, know that I was very fortunate to be your son.
If you hadn't passed away, today you would've become seventy-one.
Another year...

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In hearing what’s hiding in the horizon’s insidious tide,
Autumnal terror trickles into my cochlear sides.

Whence warmth has melded the meadows with mind,
What’s welded is melted...

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