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Rated: 13+ · Poetry · Death · #2167703

Songs of Summer and Mourning Doves

The songs of summer
reverberate through the country
intoning consolation
to despondent souls
as the season slowly dies.

Mourning doves--
Thanatologist1
attempting to comfort
summer's weeping children--
memorialize
summer's end
in ceremonies that celebrate
the season's life.

Line Count: 13
Form: Free Verse

Footnotes
1  An individual who practices Thanatology https://www.dictionary.com/browse/thanatology.

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