Retreating

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    Retreating

     Retreating

     

    Sitting under the shade

    of our weeping-willow

    on this warm

    summer evening

    watching the grass grow;

    I return to another time,

    like the songs we used

    to hear together

    on late-night radio,

    when all was

    innocent and easy,

    walking along

    that quiet road,

    except for the sound

    of our transistor radio,

    hand in hand,

    the way we were

    always waiting on

    the setting sun

    so we could kiss

    without a care

    in moonlight,

    then withdraw

    from the road

    down the dirt path,

    secluded from sight

    we make our way

    with our hearts

    racing wild

    like the river

    that runs there,

    rushing forward

    we put our feet

    in the cool water,

    laughing freely

    like the young do

    when something new

    comes upon them;

    the sounds of crickets,

    bull frogs croaking, and

    the splashing, laughing,                                                 

    water of the river,

    allowing me                                                                             

    to fall asleep,                                                               

    dreaming of us.                                                                          

     

          

     

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    Teardrops commented on Retreating

    01-31-2010

    bull forgs you ever go frog gigging we did as kids loved the poem your talent is apparent in all you write thanks Marie

    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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