Summer, you are fading away slowly, a life well lived now in its golden era.
Only a gentle warmth in the mornings, your grasp weakening as you comb through the flowers in the garden. Creeping along with stealth where before you strode boldly.
The birds no longer sing in the darkening shadows that play in the leaves of the trees. Your sunlight filters lazily to the ground.
Summer you are fading from our grasp, we still need the golden evenings where you sparkled, joy contained like a bubble floating on the breeze.
There are now flowers in the garden bending towards your light, shivering in
anticipation of a winter to come.
A winter that we have forgotten, seduced by your warmth.
These are your golden days summer, we will make the most of them now, before you are gone.
Summer you are fading from our grasp, we still need the golden evenings where you sparkled, joy contained like a bubble floating on the breeze.
There are now flowers in the garden bending towards your light, shivering in
anticipation of a winter to come.
A winter that we have forgotten, seduced by your warmth.
These are your golden days summer, we will make the most of them now, before you are gone.
I love your poetry. I drift along in a reverie. xx
ReplyDeleteHi Jen
ReplyDeleteI need Summer to hang around a little longer yet. That said we are still in something of a heatwave temps into mid high 30's.
Late Summer always seems so melancholy, fading out, but nice days in September and hey, we love the Autumn!
Well I wasn't sad before but now...jeesh. Just kidding.
ReplyDeleteThis is lovely and I can't wait to read how you welcome in Fall, my favorite of the four seasons.
Don't remind me! I'm enjoying my state of denial. :o)
ReplyDeleteNeed I say it?....Beautiful photos.
Summer is leaving slowly. Even the life of the pary needs to move on sometime.
ReplyDeleteI am looking forward to Autumn, and I am not trying to be melancholy but........
Hello Fall!!
Jen
Beautiful poem, Jen! And so are your accompanying photos. But if you're missing summer, take a hike to Nova Scotia -- we're in the throes of a record-breaking, STINKING heat wave. :)
ReplyDelete(Love your boots and the way you incorporate them into your header photos!)
It's only August, so summer just has to linger for a while longer. Anything else would be rude, don't you think?
ReplyDeleteA lovely wistful post.
Awesome poetry. It's good to spend some time with all you artistic bloggers. Keeps the drudges away and opens our minds to beauty all around us. Thanks for sharing your creativity.
ReplyDeleteYour writing is lovely, peaceful ... I am not ready for fall yet, but see the signs creeping upon us slowly every day. TTFN ~Marydon
ReplyDeleteIt just got here...no it can't go away yet. I still have soooo much to do! Kim
ReplyDeleteJen, Wonderful post...love the poem/prose and the photos are perfect. You can smell autumn on the wind...even though we have a few more months of warm, even hot weather, there is no mistaking that fall is coming. It's the winter I'm not ready for....gail
ReplyDeleteBeautifully written Jen. Sadly summer never really got going this year in England but there's always next year :)
ReplyDeleteJen:
ReplyDeleteWords flow like liquid gold for you.... I was only out in the garden this afternoon bemoaning the fact that many of my favourites are beginning to enter into their final swansongs - but alas Kirengeshoma, Aster 'Little Carlow' and my many fall flowering Aconitum species have yet to present their cacophony of beauty! Gorgeous words and photographs!
Beautiful words, Jen! And I love your new blog header (I am way behind in my blogging so I apologize if it's been up for a while!) I love fall as much as summer!! :)
ReplyDeletelovely poem. I am not looking forward to winter, especially if it is as harsh as last year.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful pictures, as always, and a lovely poem.
ReplyDeleteJen that was perfect : ) I will grant summer a small respite only for this post though ? LOL
ReplyDeleteIf it had not been such a severe swing we went from I might have been able to keep up with it a little longer ? ;-)
Was that a hydrangea and what type would it be ? Very pretty !
Joy : )