Summer Things

Post by **the mingo** » July 13th, 2008, 9:41 am

Summer Things

the birds singing,
the wind moving through trees,

the memory of your body, breathing,

the grass out in the open searing off,
drying up, burning in the
hot july sun

Post by **westcoast** » July 13th, 2008, 12:57 pm

nice. i feel this poem.

Totenkopf · Post by **Totenkopf** » July 13th, 2008, 2:43 pm

Izz this THE Mingo, like, of days of yore? Whoa. Maestro Minimal, the muses of snowy Parnassus itself herald your auric effluences with their beatific choirs......!

Or perhaps an imi-mingo-tator. Brautigan lives! like, and so do his few dozen acolytes across the parks and homeless shelters O Amerika.

Post by **the mingo** » July 13th, 2008, 3:28 pm

imi-mingo-tator...too much...when I quit laughing like a fool I'll continue...no,really, it's me days of yore et.al...(Whew! for a moment there I couldn't breathe) no,really...so how ya doin,Toten, ya bloody ol' cloud merchant you?....

Totenkopf · Post by **Totenkopf** » July 13th, 2008, 3:44 pm

Ah'm alright: could have a lot more scratch, but alive, not in jail, and undiseased. Did you happen to note the recent, er, marriage a la mode of one literary-site henchman and his trusty assistant ?? Interesting (of course I don't want to offend S8 moderators, and shan't say anything nastyish.....).

Post by **the mingo** » July 13th, 2008, 4:08 pm

i hear ya on the scratch,same here,etc. just found out I've been called for jury duty beginning next month...be a first for me...as to the a la mode I let those things take care of themselves...that kind of thing gets on your fingers and crawls right up your sleeves...

Post by **judih** » July 13th, 2008, 11:53 pm

and that poem does brilliant justice to the dried out heat languishing over fields,
hot sweaty afternoons with nothing much to do but turn on a ceiling fan and hope for the fantasies to come true

Post by **the mingo** » July 14th, 2008, 8:11 am

HI judih - thanks for reading and I hope you are well this grand day- sometime you must tell me how ya got to israel -

Post by **the mingo** » July 14th, 2008, 8:52 am

thanks for reading Jan - I hope it's a hell of a grand day for ya that brings ya music, friends, inspiration & continued breath & most important, laughter...see ya

Post by **goldenmyst** » July 14th, 2008, 9:06 pm

Mingo in my retrospective stage of life this poems speaks to me. I remember a life like this I once had.

John