Metaphor Summer Poems

Summer Dream
Note: This is Ms Huang's first poem and English is a second language, so helpful comments are welcomed and encouraged.
(This was a collaboration in...

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Under childish thumb
   picking dandelion teeth
stained in ochre crumb....

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- in those moments, it shines.
The nostalgia of an upside down
world glinting up through hourglasses of years,
a mark impressed upon flesh; a scar harbouring
simple childhood...

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Blossoms bloom, breeze serenades,
Nature's revival, life unfolds, 
Fields verdant, new birth,
Spring joy, birds sing.

Golden fields sway, gracefully,
Metaphor for life, vibrantly,
Sun warms, body, soul,
Summer light, ...

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what, I wonder, did you unlock
winter songs of summer birds
in a dingy cell with clawed-at walls
in drawing rooms where princes died
and all the soldiers marching...

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*** A DAISY TALE ***

A single, wild, tiny daisy
Less than a thumbnail in size, swaying side to side
In the slight, burning whiffs of a summer’s...

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Man is but a fragile reed
    swaying in the breeze

  Better that than shelter need
    in winter's arctic...

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Dry leaves play On dry
 branches of trees.
 And they sway, sway, sway
 And they fall on the cold sidewalk,
 Frozen by the south winds!...

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A magnolia tree stands tall by my window
On a bent bough stretching out green to me
From the nest of twig web a sparrow
Tweets to me...

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We stayed out late at night: back then;
In the warmer months of the season
We would go down to the lake for fun.

If it hadn't been...

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let sunny summers come
    We will also shine together
    in colorful prints of life  
   ...

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Summer’s colors are fading in September
The feel of autumn is more than a mirage
Leaving summer’s romance to remember,
Summer’s colors are fading in September
Soon seasonal love...

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an elephant summer night

the thunder roars
the lightening sneaks
quick peeks
through the darkness…

staccato cosmic tears
gently fall
in a beautiful rhythmic
splashing…

the piercing pain pinging
the spirit
takes its leave…slowly
fading away…

swollen aged...

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SUMMER HEAT FLASHBACKS…

Dry heat cracked the ground;
Wet whips cracked ancestors’ backs—
Juxtaposed flashbacks:-...

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OF AN EBONY HUED MID-SUMMER NIGHT DREAM
(Apropos of We Kings, Queens, and The Fiery Furnace)

Indeed, this is a day the Lord has made:-
Considering last night’s...

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