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Summer's Memory

Istiqlal (Independence), 15 Qawl (Speech) 175 B.E. - Friday, December 7, 2018

Random words ignite
Imaginations' fuse
Poems explode
Into multicolored shower of light.

The "Blogging Circle of Friends "  prompt for DAY 2210
Discuss this quote in your blog entry.....“December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory...” ― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

Summer's Memory

Nothing can obscure summer's memory, it is always there. Sometimes, like the brown grass of fall, it hides beneath a blanket of snow. It hides waiting for scent, sound, taste, touch, or sight to awaken it, like the warm sun of spring awakens the green grass. Summer memories are either blessing or curses depending on the emotions associated with them. Summer memories can take us back to our childhood, and bring either laughter or tears.

Evening Drive in Summer

A sphere of crystal radiance,
Sol dances
Across my field of vision.

His bright globe sways,
From left to right;
From right to left,
As my car consumes black asphalt.

Summer memories return in poems discovered written years ago and forgotten until the manuscript is discovered again. I wrote the above poem several years ago, when I was working at the Henderson Campus of the Community College of Southern Nevada. I rediscovered it while going through some items I moved with me. I had planned to put it in "Poem Experiments" , but this prompt brought back fond memories of driving back and forth to Henderson.