Summer, Gone
You came to bring me summer sunshine,
You left to leave me autumn gloom.
Like a speeding train,
Summer came
And Gone.
What happened to the vibrant days,
Where have my sunshine gone?
Why do the clouds just suddenly
Hid you?
My smile, don’t fade away
Please no!
Why do you have to give up
Your sunny yellow ~
Have I not brought
Your life some bright lights,
Why do we have to go apart
In blue?
Would the evening light
Sustain us
In this changing season,
Would it ease
The growing yearning
With its subdued
Glow?
I rest my heart
In this lonely season.
But I would keep our paths
Clear
Of grass growths.
May the railroad
That took you away
Would lead you
Back.
And when you’re tired
Chasing the changing seasons,
You could always return
To an endless
Summer ~
Here in my resolute
Heart.
Jeques's Web Nook (YEAR NINE) 
So many moods in a summer’s passing, it is truly a lonely time, but time to reflect on many pathes taken and many paths to take. Your words are full of so much hope and it is true, if we want we can have summer in our souls forever…with a pause and a thought.
And yes, old things to me hold memories, especially old tools, photos and objects of a housewife’s toil. Being able to slow ones life and utilize the tools of old in their precisional manner, like putting up food stores for the winter and hanging clothes on the line to dry, even in winter or making soaps, simple daily toil in a world so complex, we overlook the shear simpleness of their task.
Thank you so much for the kind birthday wish, friend.
sharon
AM00000070000001130 10, 2007 at 12:00 am09
An interesting range of pics! Love how there is a sense of physical object symbolic of a spiritual place (like the train). Summer does seem to hold a special bright light, but sometimes we forget that light can be glaring, even draining. (I know too much about high humidity in Australia!) Each season, for me, has its own yin and yang beauties.
AM000000110000004730 10, 2007 at 12:00 am09
This is indeed an interesting mix of metaphors and photos too. I love how you’ve incorporated the train coming and going with the changing of the season. Wonderful, as usual Jeques. I love stopping in to read your latest work.
Hugs, G
PM00000080000005830 10, 2007 at 12:00 pm09
Jeques, this is just lovely. The pictures, the words – such sybolism. Now for Autumn!
PM00000040000002030 10, 2007 at 12:00 pm09
jeques, the image of the train will never leave my mind as i am reading this beautiful poem. and these lines catch my breath as;
Would the evening light
Sustain us
In this changing season,
Would it ease
The growing yearning
With its subdued
Glow?
there is a deep longing here to be with someone who is away. a melancholic piece.
AM000000110000001230 10, 2007 at 12:00 am09