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Understand: A Title Within The Poem And At The End
Watermelon breath.
Lake-wet hair, canoeing. Stars,
Moon, marshmallow roasts.
Pizza, pool grass.
Sunflowers, dandelions,
Sun-scent skin, smiles.
Four leaf clovers, no
school, bare feet, freedom. Garden.
Jubilant hand-stands.
SUMMER
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Thanks, Chocomint :)
It contains all that Summer means to me.
Goodness, I do seem to repeat myself very often. Nevertheless, delighted to have reminded you...
Yes, I think you have, and I think I looked it up immediately. I also think that I will go listen to it again right now:)
No, I can't say that I have, though I have been rather meaning to for awhile.
Perhaps. I'm not sure that it's any particular kind of horse. It's their souls that I care about. Have I asked you if you ever listened to Leonard Cohen's Ballad of the Absent Mare?
Have you read anything by Wilde? I read Picture of Dorian Gray, once. He's an interesting man.
The mustang, perhaps?
Thank you.
I'm not sure, is it?
I suppose I must have such an affinity, then! They have a history with humans, one that is sometimes happy and much more often tragic. I am in love with the wild horse, or better yet, the freed horse.
As if the poem itself were the title, brilliant.
Wasn't that a book/short story by Oscar Wilde?
I am beginning to sense an affinity for horses within you ;)
Thank you, I wanted the reader to come to the meaning, or theme of the poem slowly, for it to be revealed in a title at the end, almost as if the poem itself were the title.
It was "The Canterville Ghost", the movie made for tv in 1996.
So pleasant. A playful thing! It rolls around like a mare who finally found freedom in the grassy, high plateau. Summer is smiling at you, Stargirl.
A title within the poem and at the end, such a pure idea. I liked each of the second lines the most, as well as "jubilant hand-stands."
What was the film set in Autumn?
I had hoped that I could do italics in the poem, to show the title, but I guess capitals will have to do.
(Dragonflies and Damselflies are awesome.)