Summer is standing still on a bed of dry grass and dry leaves and dry eyes. And I, eyes shut against summer sun, sleep in a constancy of orange heat. Forgotten are the cries of winter and difference. In summer, there is nothing to move another to tears or otherwise. So I stand still in a summer with no ending, dazing in a series of days in increasing indifference a world tilting away into a too-long drought A rotting orange.
But it is in this summer still as a fallen dream and on this bed of dry grass and dry leaves Where you rise to stand, demanding "Why are we standing, when it is so still in summer?
"A drought is but a warm welcome to a brother rain and oranges are sweetest when ripe and when we stand upright it is sweetest, too, to fall From summer into a whirling bed of leaves made warm and tender with orange kisses and warm sheets Come, fall--
Just because summer is still does not mean that we are still asleep when we awake."
But I wake and I look and I discover that the world is still standing (then I say to myself, in slow understanding) Even though I and others fall, "Summer is standing, still."
Meant to write a blog about summer doldrums and it came out in free verse instead.
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Well done sir, but i'd rather not be reminded of the blazing summer heat. Hmm I wish there was a snapping fingers emoticon, because clapping just doesn't feel appropriate.
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LazyFailKid Canada. August 08 2012 11:59. Posts 386
On August 08 2012 11:09 Chimpalimp wrote: Well done sir, but i'd rather not be reminded of the blazing summer heat. Hmm I wish there was a snapping fingers emoticon, because clapping just doesn't feel appropriate.
O_O raining outside with random thunder here and there where i live. (i have no poetic skills so no contribution from me) Great freeverse btw ^_^
Release United States. August 08 2012 12:06. Posts 3973
Higgledy piggley Hazelynut hihi Really nice poem I Liked it a lot
Written fantastically Incontrovertibly Free verse exceptional Oya dat's hot
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KurtistheTurtle United States. August 08 2012 16:38. Posts 1789
Your poem So great to read The blog that turned free verse Now I think of this hot season Summer
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hazelynut United States. August 08 2012 17:16. Posts 1999
On August 08 2012 16:38 KurtistheTurtle wrote: i genuinely enjoyed this. ill start reading poetry. any reccomendations?
haha I'm glad! I actually don't read much poetry except for those poems that they suggest in English classes... uh...
I like Donne, Swinburne, and this poem by Yeats:
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
edit: also, thanks guys for all writing in free verse, you are the best <3
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ohsea.toc Australia. August 08 2012 18:10. Posts 338
Come spring, when all is blossom'd in gardens of violets and rosales. When the pale is lifted from the land, and all stands drenched in sun, I will write your verse as mine, and claim the summer's fruits as mine, and sing what will be mine.
Forgo your cares for now. Sleep amid the rays and citrus blaze of summer's lengthened days.
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We antipodes collect our clothes and suffer the gloom of winter.
Winding roads hugging the coast, Passing the sunbathers, slowly they roast, The faster I drive, the slower it seems, This summer fades into past, distant dreams.
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Zinnwaldite Seychelles. August 08 2012 19:28. Posts 1310
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