Language of *Summer-ies (*some summer memories:)

Today's Poetic Bloomings prompt: Language of summer

Use at least four of these ten phrases in a poem...

Here are your ten:

"dog days of summer..."                    

"children running through a water sprinkler..."

"enjoy a chilled glass of___________"                    

"catch a wave..."

"kissed by the sun..."                                                        

"listen to the waves at the seashore..."

"I wish we never have to leave the beach..."                                                      

"summer nights under the stars..."

"lazy (or hazy, crazy) days of summer..."                            

"crank up theA/C (air conditioning)..."

A Summer Evening Thunderstorm 

These photos were taken the other night.
The 'photos' in this poem taken many summers ago.

With Mother’s ‘you may go out in bare feet’

Summer's soft advent was complete

Farm-life heaven with its

Hard working ways

Made a little girl wonder

Who came up with the phrase

‘Those lazy summer days’

We never did  

'listen to waves at the seashore'

Only story-book families went to the beach

We preserved summer in jars galore

Of plum, pear, apple, tomato and peach

But we did spend  

summer nights under the stars

Waking damp and dew-kissed by the sunrise

To a new days chores

While pine trees whispered

And willow-winds sighed

And maple-manes flaunted

The symbol of Canadian pride

Slap of screen-door,

Kool-Aid moustache

Children running through the water sprinkler

Catch-a-rainbow

Splish-splash

Enjoy a chilled glass of 

Iced mint-leaf tea

The air flushed with 

Threshing dust,

And wanderlust

As I catch a wave, 

Salt-engraved

With summer-memory

© Janet Martin

Life on a farm for a child was a healthy intermingling of work and play...play all the sweeter after the 'first-comes-work'!