It has been a while since I have participated in a #writephoto challenge, but the photo that is given for this week’s challenge is multiply reminiscent for me. Thus, I offer some poetry, in the style of the Pina Colada writer. I’m nobody’s poet, but I hope that THIS post isn’t half-bad… I want to throw it back to some of my old posts with quatrain-style.
Photo courtesy: Sue Vincent
In the height of the summer
The sunlight brightly shines.
Even when the region is shaded by pines
Darkness will not be a bummer.
The sunshine reflecting off the water
Rushes back memories of previous years.
Most saliently, these memories are not awash in tears,
But I still want to present the plotter.
These memories come from Summer Oh-Seven
As well as from June of Sixteen, one day before Father’s Day.
The former was serious, something to add to my resume
The latter was fun, but it was also a mosquito heaven!
Yes, mosquito heaven and a bunch of scratching
But I still enjoyed communing with peers
And taking off the next day on piers
Tippakayak and Tyler not matching!
And I should not leave out the first line
From the stanza before the previous one!
A few ponds from Duckweed Run
Look shaded like what the picture brings to mind!
There was Gun Pond and Lakeview Campground
And that’s just the shaded ponds from Northwest Lincoln.
Quite a bit of shade at Annulus got us thinkin’
But near McConaughy, shade could not be found!
And thinking of the shade, one more memory becomes salient
How could I forget July from eight years ago?
The impetus trip that then started this blog in Chicago…
A spy story of Eli Cohen, told on another continent!
As the water lets me reflect on summers of yore
The current summer’s end is nigh
There has been low and high
And I eagerly anticipate forevermore!
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I had to look up the Pina Colada song… but this works well 🙂
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Thanks, Sue! It was fun to write this post.
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I’ll bet 🙂
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