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Tag Archives: Summer
The End of Summer
Note: Sahm has given us Monday Poetry Prompt #19: Micropoetry!: “We’re going to do this in the form of a poem… Micropoetry! Brevity is the key here. Can you tell a story, through poetry, in as few words as possible, concerning the following … Continue reading
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Tagged Back-To-School, Blacklist, Hamburger, Mattress, Micropoetry, Summer
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Dead Trees
Summer winds tickle leaves Of trees growing beside, A dead tree doesn’t laugh Whose limbs are petrified. Sullen and without sway, Barely a shade to provide, Yet it looms high above Beyond personas belied. Arms outstretched, reaching Like memoirs verified. … Continue reading
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Tagged Death, Life, Living, Petrified, Philosophy, Ponder, Summer, Trees
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A Summer Memory – A Triolet
My memory – let summer sear So I may cherish winter’s core, Bosoms warmed from within sincere. My memory – let summer sear, This sweltering heat burns austere, Stifling catalysts evermore. My memory – let summer sear So I may … Continue reading
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Tagged Memories, Sear, Stifling, Summer, Triolet, Winter, Writer's Block
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Christmas in July
Perhaps there’s no snow, No manger scene, nor ‘ho, ho, ho’, Yet noses are red and spirits are high Charged by the sun in this hot July. No, not nipped by Jack Frost Although to read Robert Frost ‘Neath the … Continue reading
Summer Rendezvous
Waves dance close against The edges of structures To the rhythm of chirping Cicadas, bending light, Sending patience packing, Leaving drops to streak Down steamed bodies In three-digit heat. Incognito eyes watching As the sun grins knowing She’s the most … Continue reading
Dominoes
unloading doubles, counting tiles amid nosh, swigs on a summer’s night Copyright © 2013 Shainbird. All rights reserved.
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Tagged Counting, Domino Game, Doubles, Drink, Food, Senryu, Summer, Tiles
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Qualitative Quantities
One hundred and one reasons my brother’s not a vegetarian.
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Tagged 101, Brother, Grilling, Meat, Reasoning, Senryu, Summer, Vegetarian
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Ambient Lessons
Summer, school lot empty of students, Now vacationers reveling. Driving lesson In session. Two sisters in attendance In a maroon Acura set to Gymnopedie, The melancholy piece of Erik Satie. Old car, tape deck, written in three Quarter time, recorded … Continue reading
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Tagged Acura, Driving Lesson, Erik Satie, Gymnopedie, Heart, Summer, Tape Deck
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