When Summer Is Gone
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Like any transition Summer springs from a bud and burgeons into bloom, fulfilling the legacy of nature's constant change of state. Gone but remembered.
From frolicking in the swel...
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Categories:
sweltry, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Nature's Mimes
...I was a celebrated, dramatic mime artist, an art developed in ancient Greece;
I took folks on flights of imagination, like cushy, butterscotch clouds of fleece.
So beloved was this art ca...
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Categories:
sweltry, beauty, fantasy, fun, imagery,
Form: Couplet
Sweltry Summer
...One of those humid, hard-to-breathe summers
when flowers bloom across meadows and fields.
Fireflies glow at night to songs of hummers,
cicada; whose loud army never yields
Days at t...
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Categories:
sweltry, summer,
Form: Sonnet
Sultry Summer
...Summer sallies in blazing hot
Gentle in approach it is not
Chilly Spring winds soon forgot
Scorching sun off cooling soil steams
Warming all the rivers and streams
Melting core of soft snow dr...
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Categories:
sweltry, bird, day, garden, insect,
Form: Rhyme
strange fruit -
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in a dream -
Mississippi, the 50's
lone hike on a sweltry spring-tide day
rolling fields of cotton and wheat
cauliflower clouds like lazy old men
creeping across a buttery haze …
as I wal...
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Categories:
sweltry, allusion, hate, metaphor, nature,
Form: Free verse
My Night Is Gone
...Oh! I hear the bells toll again,
The morning birds awaken,
And my night is gone!!
Oh! let me sleep on,
The moon has lost her struggle,
Against the sun's pitiless dazzle,
The stars like fallen w...
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Categories:
sweltry, bereavement, romance,
Form: I do not know?