Sunday, June 28, 2015

Summer Love - A Magpie Tale


A Midsummer Night's Melancholy by Michael Sowa
Chosen by Tess for Magpie Tales, Mag 276

Summer Love

It's become awkward
and muggy besides, cobber.
(That's Aussie for pal.)

The dog wants a friend.
The cat has what it wants now.
And your painting shows
a late afternoon
but you have called it a night,
a hot summer's night.

And me? I sit here
in my basement writing you
this aside on love.

‎June ‎28, ‎2015 3:12 PM

Another Michael Sowa:


13 comments:

  1. Love all these levels of reality in your poem. Intriguing and sensitive.

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  2. An aside on love, like it Christopher, and good to see an aussieism being used, good on ya mate....

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  3. I can tell you that where I live this could very well be night at this time of the year.. night is just a few hours, and not really very dark.

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  4. Right; it's a midsummer night's day...

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  5. I immediately thought of Alaska as I read your poem ~~ in summer. Nicely done.

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  6. Love the poem, and have loved Sowa's gently bizarre paintings for years.

    there is definitely something a bit eerie about midsummer's night, too...

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  7. Nice one. So many dogs need more frequent friends!

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  8. Where there's love there's hope - and a tin of food to share! Lovely.

    Rosey Pinkerton's blog

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  9. Cobber! Love it...and you posted my very favorite Sowa...Fowl in Pearls...

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  10. Thank you all for visiting and saying kind things. Writing to prompts keeps us all green, I think.

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The chicken crossed the road. That's poultry in motion.


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