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As birds do in the serenity and majesty of sunset skies,
Some lose their inherent passion to roam.
So, we danced amid candlelight and the fireflies;
We did so when Harry came home.
His European adventure at an end,
After searching, after seeking hither and yon,
World traveler with a homeward trend,
At ease with shiny wood, pastel chiffon.
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tunefully tousling
where I go you shall follow
summertime caress
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Die Sonne sinkt langsam,
ein letzter goldener Strahl berürht das Feld.
Die Luft steht still,
schwer von Wärme und blassem Duft
der Gräser.
Vögel schweigen,
nur das leise Rascheln der Blätter bleibt.
Am Horizont färbt sich der Himmel
in ein tiefes Orange,das bald verblasst.
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I recount the nights of faint, distant glows —
the dimmed party lights of summer —
of silenced streaks of fleeing light, tassels of clouds
adorned in fleeting whites,
on the broad balcony of the west, when the
incidents on the large vestibule of the sun sum up
their lives and times on seasons’ palimpsests.
The wild party closes by the stretch of the twenty-first hour.
Darkness, frightened, creeps in with the stealth of a departing thief,
the coyness and diffidence of an undocumented harlot.
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