A reflection in verse on a fondly remembered love affair, the energy of being young and the magic of a beautiful setting. This poem tells of a long ago summer love affair that took place during a summer spent with friends in New York State the poem reminds readers that though life moves on the experience and the love stay with us forever In those days America was a kinder, less dangerous place...
I still love you on summer mornings
remembering the way you would stand by
the window to greet the Appalachian light
Delirious dust-motes danced in your aura,
Cool green sunlight filtered by tall trees
dappled your body as you we ran
to the pond where voyeuristic squirrels
watched and preoccupied birds ignored
our growing love. We smelled of grass
and earth, made friends and discoveries,
Offered our love up to the sky and
rejoiced too short a time in freedom
before the pious world recalled our names
and annulled our irreligious marriage
I loved him. At age twelve he touched my heart with his music. At age twenty he captured my heart when our eyes met as he sat on a stage and sang Four months later, he fractured my heart with his refusal to allow us to stay together. At age seventy
Blending Southern Gothic mystery romance, fantasy, theater, dance, music, and flashes of humor, tells the story of a pair of lovers in two separate time periods who find themselves battling an evil fifty years apart.
Destiny's Journey, judged Best Western in the Easychair Bookshop competition.
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