Tag: youth
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Poetic Bloomings: 17 July
“I know I am but Summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay On the Hard Points of Pebbles Feels almost prehistoric now, it was that long ago. I was paid a pittance for watering the neighbour’s gardens. Every evening I spilled the coolness of…
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Poetic Bloomings: 16 July
The Summer We Lost Childhood We were 6th grade. The big kids, and we walked the rail line. Its steel shining, a thin string of silver silk that disappeared into the distance as if swallowed by trees and life’s path. It was a balancing game. Practise. To see who’d go the farthest. Those summers were…
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Poetic Bloomings: 4 July
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” — John Steinbeck White Summers and Black Winters Age has taken the heat out of us. Petals detach, day on day. Aimless as steamboats. Once adrift, we were the sun, bright, a chase of white summer heat. Our…
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