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# Shadows Short
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/shadows-short/
- Published: 2022-02-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-02-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: grey is winter, shadows short spring a sprinter, time to court summer slammer, don't leave yet fall's a bummer, cold and wet
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

grey is winter, shadows short  
spring a sprinter, time to court  
summer slammer, don't leave yet  
fall's a bummer, cold and wet

milestones aggregate and pass  
parties, cost per plate and class  
frothy markets, trophy wives  
glossy pamphlets, bossy lives

health scares, losses and regret  
fall's a bummer, cold and wet  
old age barges in, well met  
summer slammer, don't leave yet

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**Author notes:** Arthur Goikhman // alliteration and inner rhymes as well as end rhymes are used throughout. S1L2, L3 Spring a Sprinter and Summer Slummer winer/sprinter/slammer/bummer are rhymed mid-line in the S1 S2 inner rhymes or near-rhymes in forthy/trophy and glossy/bossy two lines from the first stanza repeat (but in different order) in the S3