E-girl's Thoughtful Spot: Your Favorite Summer Moments!

[E-girl]

Favorite Summer Moments

ok new topic.

YOUR FAVORITE SUMMER MOMENTS

go ahead and write about one of your favorite memories of summer.
one of my favorite summer memories was one of the first days i spent together with my boyfriend danny. i wrote something about it so i'm just going to copy it from the archives. it still makes me smile.

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*Kirby Park*
written 5-30-02


Midnight skies, dark cerulean against a canvas of sunset oranges,
long tall grass swaying in the slightest breeze
tickling my bare legs;
a mixture of sounds: crickets, cars on the highway, a stereo blaring down below,
and of course, the sound of our sandals flip-flopping on the uneven ground...
this is the setting.
i could listen to you talk forever about what it was like for you,
growing up
because it makes me look at you
and the life you've had
and recognize a beauty in your strength
that i can only dream of having.
there's a calmness and a comfortableness
before out here with you
on the top of hill that overlooks a city we both cant wait to leave behind,
only you will get to,
and i will not.
you force my eyes to the stars
gleaming at us,
granting us anything we wish for tonight
i've gotten my wish over and again
to have someone beside me
who understands my need to cartwheel down grassy hills,
and swing so high on the swings that it seems my feet might hit the clouds
and who picks me a daisy
and knows i think its the greatest thing anyone's ever done for me...
our laughter echoes in the night
i wont remember what we laughed about,
but i'll never forget the way it felt,
the awesome feeling of bliss in the pit of my stomach
that i had almost forgotten
you pick me up like a feather
and carry me to the car
and as you open the door for me,
my life starts to make sense
in some strange way,
sitting in your car at twilight
listening to Florida breaks and running your thoughts along my stream of consciousness
gives my life meaning.
there's just a glance between me and you,
passenger to driver,
that seems to answer all my questions tonight
and all the unspoken words
drift into the dew on the windshield,
as you pull away and get back on the road
tonight you'll make a pizza,
and we'll watch Harry Potter
and i, of course, will fall asleep 10 minutes into it,
and you, of course, will tuck me in
and snuggle up next to me
so that my dreams will be peaceful
and at 3 in the morning when i wake up to turn off the tv,
you'll make sure my toes get covered up again,
and that my favorite stuffed animal hasn't fallen off the bed,
and that my alarm clock is set....
and i wont have any worries.
keep perfecting my nights,
and giving me the window to wake up to gleeful mornings,
where i dont wanna get out of bed,
for fear the feeling of safeness will go away
keep pulling me back under the covers
and reminding me that i belong in your life,
in your arms,
in the midst of your thoughts,
on the tip of your tongue,
in the brink of your bliss,
in the corners of your heart
when i think of you,
i will always think of last night
at Kirby Park
and the sound of crickets
will sing me a song
that i never know the words to,
but sing endlessly in my head.

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and here's one more. its actually one of the first things i ever posted in the Words forum. i wrote this after Starscape a few years ago.

i.left.my.heart.in.the.Sunrise
written 6.11.01

hold my hand
nothing but wonderfulness and sand
for miles and miles
where my night began
starry night
oh hold me tight
i knew i would find you there
under the moonlight
toss me a chair
all night we sit there
looking at the waves
as you play with my hair
music distant but ever so sweet
fate gives us a chance again to meet
afraid i'll say something stupid
i stay quiet in my seat
watching the sunset, thoughts in my head
down goes the sun, brilliant and red
will you forget me tomorrow,
when you wake in your bed
say my name, just once out loud
take me away from the rest of the crowd
look in my eyes
be nothing but proud
why the sadness in your voice
you came here... it was your choice
you words are carried away in the wind
why do you cry instead of rejoice
watching the sunrise, but you have long gone
you came in the dark but you left before dawn
another chapter unfinished
another memory to pawn
just another night, like all the rest
my heart rose in the east and set in the west
thats the last time i saw you
who would have guessed.

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*sigh* its nice to dredge up old memories sometimes

 

[Dastrix Slogan]

Hmmm! In the midst of December (our summer here) I wrote a silly little short poem, I thought I'd keep it for a cold night (ie now). Let me post it!

 

[beanpoophead]

oh wow i have so many favorite memories of summer....

last summer i layed in the middle of the road, half drunk, with some silly random boy and stared at the stars. my whole world could have fallen at that moment and i would have still been happy.

i used to love walking to 7-11 to get slurpees with my best friend and laughing about the silliest things.

summer in small cities is fun, everyone is together... its so nice. i miss that alot living in a much bigger city.

 

[rewiiired]

My favorite memory of this summer was rather recent; the last day I spent with my girlfriend before she went far away to visit family. The resulting brain gook in the poor attempt to express it was as follows:

Barstow.
7/16/04

We took a walk in the evening
under the beautiful night sky, almost,
but not quite killed by the city light
of the Ohio college town
where I find myself.

What are the chances I'd
get it this damned good? Who knew?
So I take the time to honor the variables
that brought me here to you.

We held each other's heands
and we talked and walked and walked,
stopped on the sidewalks only to

look at each other,
embrace each other,
kiss beneath the street lights.

You told me about stepping on dirt devils,
about the beautiful California sunrise and
the sky, riddled with multicolored lights
as it rose in the desert in the morning.

You told me about the sandy town
where you grew up.

You went over all that was
and all that you could've been
and I thank the Present-That-Isn't
and All-That-Brought-You-Here.

I take my time to honor the variables
that brought you here to me.

I look at you and I think,
from soul to skin, I sink,
and I'm in, I'm here to walk with you
whereever this goes.

Whereever this leads, I'm with you,
just stay here with me.

But you say you've got to go, but
you'll be back, not to worry:
you'll be back from Barstow,
you'll return to Ohio and Me.

Till then I yearn and bleed
for the sun my life is missing again.
And I stare at the flame of this candle tonight:
believing you, dreaming you, breathing you in;
reaching out to you outside time and space,
where existence is fluid and suffering, erased.

And I know you had to go,
and you'll be back from Barstow.

So I took a lonely walk tonight
beneath these college town street lights.

It was like a ghost town that I owned,
and I was lost in the sandstorm in my mind,
swallowed by a dirt devil I stepped inside,
but saved by the vision of a California sunrise
that is to be back in my dark Ohio skies
in due time, in due time:

I am saved by the memory
of your eyes,
of your eyes.

 

[E-girl]

^^^ this was an old poem of yours wasnt it?
i feel like i remember it.

 

[rewiiired]

Nope. Brand new. Though strangely, my previous girlfriend, who I had back in high school, was also from California, and I've posted a good deal of poetry about her here in the past. So it may be similiar to other ones, but its new.

 

[Dekloren]

I really liked that...

 

[BrightEyesIsMe]

what love is to moi

Love is what makes your whole soul feel like your world is going to be ok. The feeling of home, a caring friend, a baby just brought into the world, that look in some one special's eyes, a whisper in the dark of love... the hand of a child to comfort you, the hug from a grandparent, the stars and moon created for us by the one and only God, so many things are love.