Summer Elegy Poems

By Cherbo Geeplay

Summer is yet to come and may
never come. She's stirring in an
August noon, sitting on the long
plateaus of these fields so far
 ...

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Dear Griffin,
 I clearly remember the first time we met. Jim had brought you at all of
four months of age to my families summer reunion....

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Autumnal

The leaves on the big trees on the avenue begin to fall
a giant vacuum cleaner that looks like a truck swipes up 
the leaves in...

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Forgotten Beauty

Scarlet Beauty in her deathbed
Beauteous than the dewy rose
Beauteous than the dale of hermit
Beauteous than the Oceans pose
Beauteous than the eves and mornings
Which in...

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RIP RICO 
4/8/41—12/15/22
Spirit guide O spirit guide begin his journey
Take him through the colors 
Amber, presence of God, fiery passion, wisdom, 
and God’s anointing
Pink new...

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A sign posted in front of the library tells of
no internet service available - good heavens what to do?

the rain has waned the sun is...

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Once you sailed upon the dawn 
to grace the eaves of Pomona's verdant lawn,
but now in splendor you have drooped;
no longer shall you unleash torrents...

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Destiny
The majesty of the vast ocean 
denied.
If you are lucky, you might see
choppy water
in a summer lake....

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Prologue
 
Abandoned and in disrepair the mansion 
Is dark now; a story behind every stanchion.
It is an unwitting monument to a way of life,
Since foreclosed...

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NOVEMBER ELEGY

The trees stand calm and tranquil in repose
Rehearsing now the waiting that’s ahead
‘til breaths of air  unloose their amber clothes
To drift in swirling...

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You are gone

You remembered my birthday for easily fifty years
Every October without fail a card and in later years
An optional call or text.
Where is your...

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Wake up Nigeria whilst it is still day.
Your darkness thickens in the hot summer sun.
Wake up Nigeria from your spectators' fun.
Like a titan to the...

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Two hundred forty two
(12.1 score) years ago
countless stripling soldiers
strapping farming homeboys
healthy agrarian lads
raised among generations

in summer re:
offspring original settlers heirs
family acreage encompassed
wide uninterrupted forested swaths
across...

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Friday, June twenty first, two 
thousand nineteen at eleven fifty 
four ante meridian eastern daylight
time finds Earth's North Pole tilted 
closest toward sun. This demarcates...

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