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Wednesday 12 March 2014

A poem about memory and love by David Tombale: Summer love

Summer love is about the love a boy once shared with a girl amidst the sweltering summer heat. It's a story that is at parts fact and fiction and hopefully captures both the passion between these two people and how even when it passes it still leaves something beautiful behind.
Summer love

Once our Summer loved us,
often beckoning from the shelter
of the trees

Always wise and welcoming her little kids
when we’d laugh and skip along two hands
together as if all of us would never leave
the shade of emerald canopies

White lightning sparking silence as you
ran your tongue along my slickness and
I lost myself in touch and kiss and
warmth of us,

Summer loved us and sometimes
she lifts her sun tanned hands to wave at
me and tells me how she missed us-

loved the way I loved you,
the way gravity bounced us around each other
like the universe expanded in our hearts until
looking at you became a past time that made you blush
as the sparrows watched through slits of shutters
we kept closed in the hurried patter of summer rain
while the thunder played a melody
from the heights of distant cliffs. 

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