Love Poem: Summer of Love
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Written by: Joel Thornton

Summer of Love

SUMMER OF LOVE

Torbid lake

Serene shrill

Stillness; opaque

A furnace of a summer

Rumage through the trees and foliage

Rake and sift nature, for a selfish sake.


We all lose blood of our ancisters

We all lose in the end.

We all keep this sacrament in secrecy.

We all do nothing. Void of intent.


Weather of war.

Patriotism in cloth and bigotry

Uneducated enemy. Unhealthy lifestyles.

Unafraid, because we remain unaware.

Remain in denial.


Seasons change, climate coalesces

Geography is slowly rearranged

As is my focus on something new and strange

A focus on a dot to obsess


We all have reasons to run – to regress

We all hide.

From each other

And ourselves.