Goodbye Summer Poems

summer time in Crete was intoxicating
the beach the sky the sun the sea
our vacation was coming to its abrupt end
we said our goodbyes and promised...

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For months, a poem was written a day
To serve as keeping my diary.
Wanted to stop at the end of a simple, pure and fun filling...

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squeezed like an orange to get the last drop
craving solar energy's darts of elixir
extracting the last of summer vitality
in a last ditch effort
to caress every...

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Falling Autumn leaves brashly wave goodbye to Summer
And strew the pathways with emeralds, rubies, and gold.
Radiant beauty engages the land in mummer
Encouraging Summer to relent...

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Out of the blue on this summer day
Richie asks me if I want to swim with him across the lake
Sure what the hell and that...

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Another streak of blazed discovery 
  tumbles upon this month's vanishing ember,
that I gaze at an abandoned coastline 
   washing off this...

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Will a closure come more slowly
than a Summer's breeze goodbye?
where twilight hides in a darker realm of gray
and the Summer's last days are met
 ...

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"A fallen leaf is nothing more than
summer's wave goodbye."

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I intend to enjoy summer
and the sun, warming my ancient skin.
Once, I said goodbye to summer
because one season must yield to the next,
and it was...

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July whispers secrets through the scorching air,
A furnace of days, relentless in its glare.
The sun, a tyrant, rules the endless skies,
As weary souls beneath it...

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Her spell remains over me 44 years later

Once a bumblebee has kissed the nectar of Snapdragon
The creature is fever of succulence

She says, “You kiss so...

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Ring, ring, ringing a bell
And singing towards the sound of crystals.
Too cold for a moonlight shine;
Too hot for a feast’s flame;
However just right it is,...

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There was a time of love beneath plantation trees,
A time where I was young and beautiful and quite attached
to the woman in the mirror,
In fact...

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Adieu

Red cricket
Flirts with the rising moonglow,
Feels the first icy fist of frosty breath subdue
The summer chorus serendipity
In a cold moon shadow -
Summer troubadour bids "Adieu!"
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I saw a man leave today
  he had April in his eyes
a hipflask in his pocket
  as he said his last goodbyes

and all...

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