Challenge
August/September
August and September are two months that are contrasting in many ways and have many connotations for different people at different stages of life. Write about these two months, poem or prose, and your experience with them, and how they affected your life.
The Dog Days Are Over
Melted ice-cream cones on fallen leaves
As we hold hands and watch the sun fall.
The horizon tinted indigo, sherbert clouds
Forming a frothy sea where stars dance
Like the embers twinkling in the distance,
The last campfire of parting high schoolers.
Memories being made through tears,
Blanketed girls clutching their sweethearts
In one hand and a marshmallow-filled
Stick in the other while laughing gleefuly,
Reminiscing on old teachers and principals.
Little kids walking past, yawning and whining,
Five more minutes, ten more minutes, we beg;
We all beg Father Time for more time to spend
Dancing in the glow of summer another night
Before the chill of autumn gives way to winter.