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7/11 Poem of the month

                           It was a summer’s day

It was a summer’s day,

I gazed at the sound,

I saw a cloud mass,

It looked like a mountain range,

Hovering there above the water.

I saw a ship floating, slowly by.

I knew the shipmates saw what I saw,

They did not see the empty terraces;

I smelled the flowers, the mint,

Meticulous gardens along the roadway.

I wondered: “Where are the folks”?

I love their homes, their prizes…

I thought: “if I lived there I would ne’er leave”,

Then, as if a sudden storm it hit me,

We men never appreciate what we possess,

It seems we are in constant pursuit.

For me, I would lounge on those sound front terraces forever,

Yet they remained empty, void of life…

I thought: “Maybe I could be a stand in”,

While the owners were off rambling;

I could hold the fort, their fort of paradise,

Still I knew, their terraces were part of my pursuit;

I could not wrestle them away…

It was just a summer’s day…

 

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