Summer Dodoitsu Poems

What a fun time of the year
picking apples for baked pies
playing in the falling leaves
winter is coming....

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hail the size of small grapefruit
summer yard covered like snow
vanished like the nesting birds
frightening weather  

Written August 7, 2022
[7-7-7-5]...

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 Winter is an etching, spring is a watercolor, summer is
an oil painting, and autumn is a mosaic of them all."
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anthers of orange and gold
a large pink bloom soaks the sun
light pink here and dark pink there
with streaks of purple

fragrance fills the summertime
forever lived in...

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The summer sun burns hot now.
It dries the grass and the fields.
Even the insects seek shade.
Summer time is here.

Iridescent dragonflies,
Lovely colored butterflies,
Busy humming honey bees,
Even...

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gold butterflies in noon fields
of sunflowers and daisies
greet black-eyed susan delight
yellow warblers sing

in the heart of hot summer
the song lives on forever
on the blooming paths...

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deepest green forever fields
in mellow sunshine we laughed
as we froze in memory
petals on the breeze

yesterday's riotous hues
upon bird and bloom and tree
linger with the sweet...

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doors wide open sun pours in
and I am lost in the light
like vivid blooms lost in night
afternoon dreaming

time crawls the birds are singing
wake me on...

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bathed in reds from setting sun
the moon peeps in dreams of night
cars go by music playing
cardinals fly low

children play in summer's glow
nearby a double red...

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wind in hair facing the sun
walking paths of yesterdays
fragrant gusts in bowing trees
invisible friend

tossing the blooms to and fro
all dance to your lively tune
clothes flapping...

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one more dance before we part
moonlit evening's growing old
all nighttime exudes romance
in sultry summer...

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The roses have died away

chrysanthemums are in bloom

and trees are dropping their leaves;

summer is no more.


(Dodoitsu)


10-03-2020...

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don't spit on my tail please
said rat with a summer cold
never saw children like these
brassy and so bold.

don't spit on my tail please
said oldster rat,...

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Woke up to a sunny day

Life had been smiling at them

They hoped summer to enjoy

In heaven were found!







© Demetrios Trifiatis
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Their spreading out like thin veins, 
Green pimples on dark red clay.
Some things you just love to hate,
Citra time is here....

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