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Your words
Paint perfect pictures
Of fireflies and June nights,
Pavement so hot it would
Blister your bare feet
Of singing stars and city lights
The hum of electrical wires and telephone poles
Melting past your open window
Becoming one long line of never ending black,
A slash against the open palm of the sky,
Bleeding clouds and sunsets.

Your words
Paint perfect pictures
Of fireflies and June nights,
The prairie grass,
Sharp beneath bare feet,
Of the pond behind my house
And how we would slip between
The symphonic noises and startle at the sacred silence.
The noise of wind in our ears,
A gentle, loving thing,
Speaking of found promises.
I was inspired to write this by living-in-his-head.deviantart.… and his poem Barefoot Summers. It struck something deep within me, transporting me back to summer nights as a child.  Back to prairie grass and numberless stars, and the pond behind out house that would fill with frogs, back to how the city lights shone like diamonds against the horizon and telephone poles that would crisscross the blue sky with lines of black....anyway, that is what this poem is. Me trying to recapture some of that memory.
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LiterarySerenity's avatar
This was beautiful! I loved the gentle flow of the narrative, the tender emotions invoked by the imagery, and simply the overall structure. Thank you for sharing!