Taken at Stone Mountain, GA, 24 May 2014, with a Nokia Lumia 1020. I darkened the exposure and cropped it in Photoshop.
Fields in flower, love in Spring,
Joy to human hearts it brings.
Life awakens, love in bloom,
happiness fills every room.
Gentle showers rain again,
Summer winds blow quickly in.
Life is wondrous, warm, secure.
Love comes quickly, more mature.
Heated days give passionate haste,
To livened kisses, quick embrace.
Yet, all seems well in Summer sun,
though Autumn’s breezes have begun.
And though there’s warmth, the warmth is old
For kisses soon grow steadily cold.
Your eyes are turned to Springtime bliss.
Another’s lips you long to kiss.
Your eyes then turn, to find her gone.
Winter’s chill left you alone.
G. M. Lupo (ISNI: 0000 0005 0315 9196) is a native of Atlanta, Georgia where he has always had a dysfunctional relationship with his hometown. His most recent published work is the story collection Reconstruction (2020), part of his series of Atlanta Stories, which includes Fables of the New South (2017). Along with his novel, Rebecca, Too (2018), and his full-length play Another Mother, these constitute his Expanded Universe of Fictional Atlanta. He has also released a collection of essays, poetry, and stories entitled Words Words Words (2020).
He was the winner of the 2017 Essential Theatre Play Writing Award for Another Mother which had its world premiere in his home neighborhood of West End in August 2017, in the building that once housed the library where he learned to read as a child.
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