Buckabear Pond July 9, 2016

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anticipating Bastille Day

Five days before your birthday every year

Your father’s birthday came first.

Nine days before your birthday

Your father’s life ceased with his last breath.

As your birthday approaches those memories

Surface again happy and sad mixed together

The turns and twists of the times of your life

How the years change us and the world.

Being with you next to me sharing your life

Affected by your feelings as you are mine

Perhaps even melding into the same biome

It’s good that we get along so well.

This perfect summer day is ours

Getting out in the cool morning air

The cloudless blue sky expands to infinite reach

We glide in the breeze on our bikes.

This timeless trip through the shaded woods

Following the splashing stream past the mergansers

Ends in the town park by the pollywog pond

Returning home under cumulus cloud thermals.

You look in the mirror and see signs of age

But I see a fit body and a sympathetic self

A kind person who still enjoys a good laugh

The kind of person I want to be with.

Kay Center pond July 2, 2016

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Skylands July 1, 2016

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