Lost and found is my eureka! blog, my rediscovery of my short fiction and poetry submissions published in literary magazines and university literary journals some decades ago. Interspersed, occasionally, with more recent, hitherto unpublished pieces.
Gone the probing shafts of dawn's early light gently introducing the promised warmth and beauty of another summer glorious day. Gone too, the lilting birdsong exuberantly meeting the flush of daylight hours.
Memory and longing tuck away the fragrance of heritage blooms, the exquisite loveliness of petals folding, overlapping and enfolding, silken and complex colours and shades defying nature's painterly brush.
Faded, all, lapsed into stale and desiccated remnants of the intense glories of shape, texture, fragrance, colour and abundant sublimity they once were prided for. Gone, and we, forlorn, their memory dimly recalled.
Now, the sky clamps its dark lid early on these cold fall days, and we mourn. Gone, the summer warmth and light, airy breezes. Gone the joys of spontaneity of movement. Faded the flowers, bare the trees, and fled the songbirds, butterflies, leaving our world a wan, leaner place.
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