Still, I Shudder (Original Poetry)

Summer lingers,
but too soon
it will brush its lips
across our foreheads
with one last warm breeze,

a sort of goodnight’s kiss
with a promise to return.
The short march to
the death of winter solitude,
I haven’t yet come to terms.

Still, I shudder at the thought.
I take our beagle to the woods
and we savor the last bits of you
drink in the mottled green and
fill my lungs with the perfume
of warm, mossy Earth.

Soon, these memories
will be all we have
and we pray
the daydreams we harbor
will again transport us
faithfully to another spring.

~Eric Vance Walton~


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Poetry should move us, it should change us, it should glitch our brains, shift our moods to another frequency. Poetry should evoke feelings of melancholy, whimsy, it should remind us what it feels like to be in love, or cause us to think about something in a completely different way. I view poetry, and all art really, as a temporary and fragile bridge between our world and a more pure and refined one. This is a world we could bring into creation if enough of us believed in it. This book is ephemera, destined to end up forgotten, lingering on some dusty shelf or tucked away in a dark attic. Yet the words, they will live on in memory. I hope these words become a part of you, bubble up into your memory when you least expect them to and make you feel a little more alive.

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