another summer lost

31 Jul 2017

another summer lost

open the windows and let cold air in
infiltrating your comfort zone and chilling
your most heated and desperate thoughts

I know not what raises your condition
bringing your ideas to simmering boil
followed by mind-numbing afterburn

I’ve spotted your face in the passing clouds
sliver of a silver moon peek-a-booing
songbirds praising your inner beauty

although impossible to keep you close
I’ve kept your photographs frozen in my mind
turning them into moving pictures

this cold air is bound to heat up again
meanwhile I huddle inside heavy blankets
waiting for winter solstice to show

july two thousand seventeen
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Posted in Nature, Poetry and tagged love, nature, poem, Poetry, syllabic

6 thoughts on “another summer lost”

The Thrifty Campers on August 1, 2017 at 10:41 am said:

Beautiful words🙂 Great vivid poem👍

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- j matthew waters on August 1, 2017 at 10:44 am said:
  
  oh thank you very much 😊
  
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Aquileana on August 2, 2017 at 6:40 am said:

So beautifully penned… The fourth stanza is so evocative and moving (photographs can have powerful effects over us, right: frozen moments… wishing you a great day! 😀

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- j matthew waters on August 2, 2017 at 6:42 am said:
  
  Glad you enjoyed this poem, Amalia. Thanks so much and likewise.
  
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annell4 on August 2, 2017 at 7:57 am said:

So much to like! I was caught by the frozen photos.

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- j matthew waters on August 2, 2017 at 8:21 am said:
  
  Thank you so much – I appreciate your visiting here and sharing your thoughts on this piece.
  
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poetry by j matthew waters