Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Goodbye JULY!

Wow was that a fast month. Here's a poem I wrote to celebrate changes. It's cooling off in the early mornings and the sun is rising later. Seasons of our lives contain other symbolisms too.

Changes
A long hot summer,
sizzling temperatures drain,
humidity saps my soul.
Never ending heat,
welcome at first after
a cold winter and brief spring.
 
Bright yellow leaves signal
changing seasons––autumn.
A cool breeze rushes by,
chills me as I bask
in sunshine, summer is going.
 
Doesn't ask permission.
only slips away like a guilty lover
unwilling to face the music.
Hiding behind a facade of integrity
until that, too, gives way.
Leaves fall, truth lies naked
as trees in winter.

6 comments:

  1. Oh how I hate to see July go. But august is still summer in the PNW, just slower and lazier, the dog days.

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  2. And I had no idea your summers could be that HOT and dry! It was quite an experience!

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  3. i sit here and wonder where this summer and this year has gone. I don't know that i'm looking forward to fall just yet.

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  4. It seems like it is going too fast!! I wish I had a couple more months of it.

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  5. I so enjoyed your poem...I like that line 'hiding behind a facade of integrity until that, too gives way.'

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  6. July has become the beginning and ending of summer, it seems. So love Yankee summers from late June to late August. So love summer here.

    Well written post. Thanks, Lin.

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