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As they said in the old day's, "sumer is icumen" and so this little number, courtesy of the Poem-A-Day website, seems most appropriate:
Summer SongWanderer moon
smiling a
faintly ironical smile
at this
brilliant, dew-moistened
summer morning,—
a detached
sleepily indifferent
smile, a
wanderer's smile,—
if I should
buy a shirt
your color and
put on a necktie
sky-blue
where would they carry me?William Carlos Williams
And, of course, if you're over 80 (or saw the movie Rushmore), it's hard not to free associate the Williams title with this little ditty:
summer night--
the moon by the river
just a sliver
Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue
best,
Don
Wanderer moon
ReplyDeletesmiling
I LIKE THAT! while
in my mind 10,000
'full moon' shorties
... simultaneously
Williams another poet/essayist everyboddhi knows (of) and few are his every-word-readers
I wonder: he and Henry Miller friends?
full moon
wandering
among stars
Summer thinks it's already king down here.
ReplyDeleteEd, glad you liked ...
ReplyDeleteSummer has arrived, Charles, which what prompted the post - 90 here in the Burg here tomorrow.
Summer IS king where I am. The sun's beating WELL down upon us, and nothing can save us except the salvation of the shade and fans.
ReplyDeleteI never heard of a poem called Wanderer Moon, but hey, I like it!
Thanks, Shigune
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