Basya

Member since January 22, 2017

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I Thought The Summer Was Young

Posted Aug 26, 2019 · 12 lines · 4 critiques

I thought the summer was young
And the blossoms had barely just bloomed
And the tunes of the season still hung
Yet it suddenly left us and now we are doomed

I thought that the summer began
It’s smells had just wafted right through
But the season has picked up and ran
And the leaves have descended in every fall hue

The summer it never was young
It aged long before it appeared
It wilted before it had sprung
And it long so has gone; disappeared ...

Basya’s timeline

January 2022
22 Sat

Anniversary
5 years of membership
August 2019
27 Tue

Received a critique
on I Thought The Summer Was Young from @Eumolpus
"like the timeless position of the poem , a universal anywhere/any age type stance. I have two considerations: First the word doom (a bit forced with bloom.) it's a very heavy word and needs clarification. Being old is n…"
27 Tue

Received a critique
on I Thought The Summer Was Young from @Patricia
"I liked everything about this poem. The imagery, the rhyme, and the title were all perfect. It was just plain lovely. Thank you for a beautiful poem. B9Pat"
26 Mon

Received a critique
on I Thought The Summer Was Young from @medes879
"Really hits home to all unknown parts. Awake to the tenndency to dream to sing a tender song. As the tender lying of the fawn out on the lawm. Words that breath a nostalgic portion in its meaning. You have created a cha…"
26 Mon

Received a critique
on I Thought The Summer Was Young from @lovedly
"all are as young as you want em to be reading your poetry I feel vitality summer is slowing going into sleeping mode let it AUTUMN IN CANADA is mostest lovely come and see just enjoy its exquisite beauty"
26 Mon

Posted a poem
I Thought The Summer Was Young
"I thought the summer was young"
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January 2018
22 Mon

Anniversary
One year of membership
November 2017
03 Fri

Received a critique
on When Summer Wanes from @weirdelf
"and vivid imagery. Basya, I notice you have not given any feedback to anyone else since you joined Neopoet. I strongly recommend that you start doing so. The more you give the more you get and it helps you with your own…"
September 2017
26 Tue

Received a critique
on The Way Fall Came from @riotface97
"Personally, I find rhyme-schemes can run the risk of sounding derivative, but I like this. My favourite line was "Not strong at all, but just enough. To tell the birds to go." It seemed beautifully melancholic. As if a…"
01 Fri

Posted a poem
The Way Fall Came
"First the wind of Fall was soft"
Open thread 12 lines
August 2017
27 Sun

Posted a poem
When Summer Wanes
"In mulling 'bout the season's gifts"
Open thread 12 lines
24 Thu

Received a critique
on " Forgive Me, For I Could Not Know" from @swamp-witch
"I'm not great with classical western forms, but I know this feeling that the poem presents. We feel so small in a graveyard of the many people who came before us, but also more connected to them than we can usually feel…"
24 Thu

Received a critique
on " Forgive Me, For I Could Not Know" from @Sparrow
"There in the church yards and cemeteries throughout the world are many you will never know. But to know that in their life, was your life also, even the lowliest grave may contain the remains of a person, that may have…"
23 Wed

Posted a poem
" Forgive Me, For I Could Not Know"
"I stumbled 'pon some crumbling graves"
Open thread 12 lines
July 2017
26 Wed

Posted a poem
The Owl's Foe
"What can I say to all the owls"
Open thread 12 lines
June 2017
08 Thu

New follower
@Race_9togo
08 Thu

Posted a poem
Befriending An Orchard
"Indeed, an orchard on the road"
Open thread 12 lines
February 2017
14 Tue

Posted a poem
December Doldrums
"December doldrums befall each year"
Open thread 20 lines
07 Tue

Posted a poem
"I'm Sorry, Leaves, This Autumn Season"
"I'm sorry, leaves, this autumn season"
Open thread 12 lines
January 2017
29 Sun

Posted a poem
I've Kept The Snow
"So bare and clean"
Open thread 24 lines
24 Tue

Posted a poem
What A Fool, The Wind!
"A wind that night had brought a friend"
Open thread 20 lines
22 Sun

First publication
The Rectitude I Thought I Had
22 Sun

Posted a poem
The Rectitude I Thought I Had
"To have been thinking all this time"
Open thread 12 lines
22 Sun

Joined Neopoet
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I Thought The Summer Was Young

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5 years of membership

on I Thought The Summer Was Young from @Eumolpus

on I Thought The Summer Was Young from @Patricia

on I Thought The Summer Was Young from @medes879

on I Thought The Summer Was Young from @lovedly

I Thought The Summer Was Young

One year of membership

on When Summer Wanes from @weirdelf

on The Way Fall Came from @riotface97

The Way Fall Came

When Summer Wanes

on " Forgive Me, For I Could Not Know" from @swamp-witch

on " Forgive Me, For I Could Not Know" from @Sparrow

" Forgive Me, For I Could Not Know"

The Owl's Foe

@Race_9togo

Befriending An Orchard

December Doldrums

"I'm Sorry, Leaves, This Autumn Season"

I've Kept The Snow

What A Fool, The Wind!

The Rectitude I Thought I Had

The Rectitude I Thought I Had

Membership begins

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