Summer by Richard Reed Jr

Season of puffed up clouds and scorched brown grass
Long laziness shuffling across the dried sod
Seeking some spot of shade to fend off the sun
Down in the fields where the shadows of fences run

To the far horizons where the sky rises up from the earth
And begins to grow gray with piercing lightning crackling
Followed by thunder and the cooling down of midday
Raining moist kisses on trees and flowers at play
Floating in from the sea and yielding to the jagged peaks
Of mountains; queen-size droplets falling falling
Soothing parched throats and brightening the pale of the land

Who has not known the passionate heat of your noon
The rejuvenating cool of your early evening breezes
Lovers that seek can find you blowing in from the lochs
Your hair soft-lifted and winnowed like golden wheat
Or dozing by the banks of a clear spiraling stream
Lying in a bed of soft green moss delicately
Lined with poppies protected by a tall spreading oak
Sharing your dreams with every one young or old
Like a mother you cherish your children and keep them unharmed
Or sometimes like a soft-handed gardener kneeling--tending
Your wary eye watches over the seedlings each day

Spare no jealousy when the anointed spring arrives
You cast a hypnotic spell so very well-woven
As the red kimono spun by those little worms feeding,
Stealing dinner from the Asian white mulberry tree
While early morning sunlight blooms the flowers
And bathes the world in lemon-saffron hue
At night your purple cloak does gleam and glitter
Star-shine soothes the bleating lambs below
While beetle-lovers are courting with fiery lights
When you leave, the nightingale bird no longer content
Sings its last song and takes wing to the chilling skies

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by Richard Reed Jr
copyright 07-18-2007

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