Summer's Heat, Now Autumn's Gray

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    Summer's Heat, Now Autumn's Gray

    Summer's Heat, Now Autumn's Gray

    Dark the water lay as I forced ripples across the glazing
    We pushed on this early hour, before the sun
    A few minutes portage over a stony path
    To the lake of our summer's past
    Where boys grew to know the world
    The pond in which we swam, played, and grew

    Years have passed since I paddled this water
    Looking beyond the speckled black
    Of morning's light on my wake
    Familiar patterns emerge, jogging memories
    Memories long stowed for want of time
    To reflect and relive theses few happy days
    When they were planted here


    The remembrance of summer's long spent day
    Of youthful warmth given over to middle age mediocrity
    Of hopeful dreams given over to settling
    Of youth gone, and love past, the time has gone
    But as I gray I will cherish the memories
    Reviewed on this blackened glass, this lake on early morn

    Ted Aronis

    Copyright ©2001 Ted Aronis

     

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    laurilang5 commented on Summer's Heat, Now Autumn's Gray

    12-23-2009

    It is a cruel reality, the necessary losses that are the rewards of survival. I enjoyed this very much, touched on many concessions all too familiar. I could almost hear the water lapping at the boat..

    Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

    Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

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