“Summer’s End” for the Sunday Whirl Wordle 608, June 11, 2023

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“Summer’s End”

In the shadows of my past, the crow goes soaring higher,
rising from the creek’s mist to the summer sunset’s fire.

Lately a lonely sentinel at the barn’s far peak,
it filters time now through its wings, the past held in its beak.

Yes, I still remember it belting its harsh caw
as it lifted in the air with summer in its maw.

Tomorrow the first day of school, it marked vacation’s end.
As lazy water in the creek meandered ’round the bend,

bound to some deep forest, far from this boundless plain,
I watched free careless summer vanish once again.

For the Sunday Whirl Wordle 608 the words are: mist creek belt shadows forest summer still rising crow filters time sentinel
Image from Juneau Alaska on Unsplash.

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My blog, which started out to be about overcoming grief, quickly grew into a blog about celebrating life. I post daily: poems, photographs, essays or stories. I've lived in countries all around the globe but have finally come to rest in Mexico, where I've lived since 2001. My books may be found on Amazon in Kindle and print format, my art in local Ajijic galleries. Hope to see you at my blog.

20 thoughts on ““Summer’s End” for the Sunday Whirl Wordle 608, June 11, 2023”

  1. Sam's avatarSam

    OH WOW~!!! WHERE DID THAT COME FROM~? Beautiful Image description: a born again crow with wings in a v shape flying over the a misty creek, next to the woods, looking for a school of fish, with nothing in its beak~! GREAT~! Love it~!

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      1. Unknown's avatarAnonymous

        My comment was unkind, and mean of me~!,,,,, I Loved both the photo, (at the time I wondered if you had actually taken it~! ) and the poem which I considered well above even some of your best. (That went into my keeper file to be read again many times later) But at the time I happened to have Monty Python’s Flying Circus booming on the TV~!! (though I was not watching it), But I must have caught their asinine pessimistic attitude just the clop, clop, clop, or flop, flop from them.

        It is hot as Hades here and I have been outside cutting branches again.. Some day I will get that frozen “Branch Derision” mess cleaned up, though you can not much see my progress. I only work an hour or so on it each morning before it gets too hot.

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          1. Sam's avatarSam

            THE ONE BEFORE THIS ONE WHERE I WROTE A SICK STATEMENT ABOUT THE CROW~! More later, once again I may have changed my mind about my trip South.
            By the way I am no longer called “Someone” on your site.

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            1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

              Glad you have regained your identity. I wasn’t insulted by your crow comment. It didn’t sound sick to me. Keep me informed re/ your trip south.

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