Below is a June 30, 1980 poem in cinquain format (2,4,6,8,2 syllables in the lines). The poem is set in summer. My explanation for the poem out of Journal #32 was that of a woman (daughter Julie 20 years into the future?) daydreaming about her life as a child when there were no stresses, only the anticipation of catching a butterfly amidst beautiful summer colors! The child in the poem was adopted and was intending to pick a bouquet of flowers for her adoptive parents but she got sidetracked chasing the monarch. Then a noise startled the woman and she was drawn away from her daydream, returning to the present.
Daydream
In mind
she danced through fields
of trumpet daffodils,
violets, crimson clover and
daisies.
A child
of yesteryear
chasing an elusive
monarch beneath the summer sun
alone.
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The April 1980 photo below shows daughter Julie and her friend JoLee, both adopted and both age 10, holding a single bouquet of lilacs amidst a field of emerging dandelions. Today's "children of yesteryear". I suspect humble blogger got the bouquet as JoLee was Julie's guest over the weekend.
