I could not wait to post this! A "not a cento poem poem" in response to the latest prompt from We Write Poems. The title and the lines are taken from Ray Bradbury's "Dandelion Wine" - truly a book for all times. If I could I'd post all of it. "The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered." A great book.
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Summer in the Air ~
Time
is so strange and life is twice as strange
You're
only you, here, now-the present you
Some
people turn sad awfully young
Old
people never were children
You
do things and don’t watch
Shadows
running around in the air
Why
not let nature show you a few things?
But
you got to look at grapes as well as watermelons
Cutting
grass and pulling weeds can be a way of life, son
You’ve
time to seek and find. No person ever
died that had a family
This
fine first cool white snow would never melt,
but live a thousand summers
Live for the Love of it,
Wonderful. Lovely. A fitting tribute to Ray Bradbury. It makes me want to read Dandelion Wine, which I'm sad to say I've never read. Thank you.
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Thank you very much, Richard. I envy you: you're going to taste "Dandelion Wine" for the first time.. Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteHow appropriate to use Ray Bradbury. This works really well. I love the way this prompt makes the prose stand out.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Annette. I was so happy to revisit that book. Made such a big impression on me when I first read it.
DeleteRay Bradbury, what a perfect choice for this. Love it.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Sara :-)
DeleteAbsolutely, Happy-Sasha!! This complied magically!! I'm going to need to look for this book...great words!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Hannah! This is a wonderful book, no Martians this time around, but full of magic. Just beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the intro, and for a splendid not a cento poem poem.
ReplyDeleteOne line I hope was tongue in cheek! "Old people never were children" - I'm old, and am still a child.
Thank you, Viv. No, it wasn't tongue in cheek: it was one of the "discoveries" a boy made. This is a kid's perspective.
ReplyDeleteAnd you are a young child, Viv!
So many good books so little time. If my eldest were a reader of such I'd set this in front of him...though I think he, as a young father is finding out and doing a nice job of being a good 'Daddy'.
ReplyDeleteI think I didn't quite get this prompt, but here is my offering:
http://julesgemsandstuff.blogspot.com/2012/06/wwp-109-pearly.html
True..time IS an issue, never enough time.. I'm glad my "not a cento poem" worked out, but frankly I didn't have to do much: this whole book does read like a poem.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jules!