28 responses to “Summer”

1. Mine always seem to get in the waistband of my pedal pushers! I like this so very much. Again, a wistful photo from times gone

2. Love it! Love when so much is said in so few words!

3. I love the economy of this poem, saying so much in so few yet precise words. The isolation of the final line has a great impact. Lovely imagery.

4. Lovely!!

5. Wonderful simplicity in this and I don’t think there is anyone who doesn’t know that itch.

6. Wordplay here gives us a tactile sense as well as a sentimental journey. Lovely.

7. We’ve all had sand left in our shoes, that’s what makes this so relatable. I felt a little wistful remembering those days as a girl getting sand in my shoes. I love the old fashioned scene on the beach.

8. Ah, so many memories can be contained in a shoe left behind!

9. such a delicious metaphor!

10. Oh my gosh, yes. I love this detail and so relate to it having spent my childhood going to the beach in California. I really like that you focused on the sense of touch.

11. This is just gorgeous, Bjorn.

12. Perfect, my friend, just perfect.

13. YES.
    Though I am of the school of thought that sand is just fine fairy dust, waiting to recreate magic. I am fond of finding it in random places after visiting the coast, or my beloved Lake Tahoe.

14. Sometimes I find them in Autumn

15. It’s making me a little bit giddy how well you’ve all done with this prompt. This is exactly the kind of poetry I love: short and seemingly simple, but possibly very complex … or deep, at least.

    So to me, this is about the old woman who lived in a shoe (you know the next bit about having so many children she didn’t know what to do). Anyway, she finally “left” the shoe. She just took off; no one knows where she is now.

    The grains of sand are the children she left behind. They also represent time, life, years. Those she’s already spent and/or those she has left. It’s all an itch … her emotions, memories, feelings: they’re all over the place and jumbled-up confusing.

    I LOVE the last line … the double meaning in “just.” She was just, before sunset. Now she’s all kinds of unjust. 😛

    Also, “remaining” could mean “re-main(land)ing.” That would be about someone who tried to live in the ocean for a while but ended up having to go back to land. Anyway, he has that constant reminder of (and itch to return to) all he left behind in the sea.

    Or, more than likely, none of the above. 🙂

16. perfect

17. Heartfelt memories, that bring sweet feelings.

18. I just came back from the beach and this made a lovely warm reading, Bjorn! 🙂

19. Nice. Right up my alley, the beach is a perpetual memory, part of who I am.

20. lovely!

21. Smiling I am……love this one. Summers gone by….the nostalgia is palpable here. 🙂

22. This is one of those bitter sweet memories or itchy feet ones. So little can say so much.

23. Very nostalgic…and so true. 🙂

24. I love it! Thinking back on my beach vacation now…

25. I loved this piece and the picture that accompanied it, Bjorn. Lovely memories. 🙂 — Suzanne

26. You make a grain of sand in the shoe pleasant with memories…

27. Soooo true!

28. like sands through an hourglass: those carefree summer days – poured out from a running shoe – left behind on the beach :

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