Sing a song of August
Peaches in a pie
Chicory-lined ditches
Monarch butterfly
Harvest to the silo
Bare-feet by the brook
Crickets-incognito
Wild-bloom laden nook
Sweet corn for our supper
Blue-sky opulence
Growing ever softer
In autumn’s advance
Ballad of bronze pastures
Sunflower festoon
Summer's spiraled laughter
Like honey from a spoon
Leaf-song in the woodland
Sea-song on the beach
Love-song keenly pulsing
As they slip from our reach
Sing a song of August
Cloying melody
Of summer softly slipping
Into our memory
© Janet Martin
...sigh...I always love your words and photos. There's not a more perfect ode to August out there.
ReplyDeleteThere is something about August that stirs me like no other month!
ReplyDeleteThank-you, Jen:)
What fun... I loved the melody of your poem. A perfect collection of August's images.
ReplyDeleteHi Brenda and thank-you:) August is one of my favorite months. I'd love to write an August poem every day!
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