Musing in sixteen lines

A memory filtered by 45 years

The present live in old barns 

Echoed as the forgotten

Myths in a spent mystery 

Wrapped in a written charm 

And yearning Theocritus

Upon the scent of summer hay

And wagons and sparrow song

And the hum of lazy flies

A snatch of nostalgia

A simple touch away 

Live - behind those curtains

Which were secretly drawn 

Under the light bulb stare

A silent harvest reaped 

Still at play - this empty game 

Of times aching garner

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this is definitely nostalgia for me...i nearly lived in barns in the summers when I spent time in Vermont as a kid.
so this brings me back and makes me smell the hay, the manure...remember watching and helping the cows to be milked...
so visual...but auditory and the sense of smell overwhelms in a good way.
i so much wonder what the 17th line might say.
j.

[Michael Oliver]

Cant really say we were involved with Puritan poltics beheading our King estsablishing a short lived republic, and in the Putney debateslaying the ground for the modern world.

[Phill Oz O'fee]

An intriguing bucolic format; capturing a pondering of life, in such an easy flowing poetical idealized manner. Enjoyable read and poignantly thought-provoking... :-)

[andrew mitchell]

Very nicely written Michael, impressive to say the least. A lot of wisdom in brevity.

[Michael Oliver]

Thank you Andrew

[emmajoy]

' .. yearning Theocritus ~ Upon the scent of summer hay ~ And wagons and sparrow song ~ And the hum of lazy flies '

Such a gentle, graphic flow of words. Whatever felt, whatever seen, there seems to be more positives or perhaps contented logic in the up-to-now. The 'aching' perhaps the thoughts one has of this or that magical moment?

[Michael Oliver]

Thank you for you review - seems to have found a resonance in you - makes it worthwhile/

[sette]

wow... musing in sixteen lines from four decades of existence.. you have lived a life and that is for sure.. it is reflected in the words used and with vivid thoughts behind those words

[Michael Oliver]

Thank you for your kind review