On Summer Nights Like These...

Poetic Bloomings Pompt day Two: Today's feature, Smiles of a Summer Night

Sultry breeze spirals then settles at dusk

Hummingbird whirs where each bloom is a cup

Afternoon washes bare feet then recedes

Blue, like a tide on summer’s sky-wide sea

Sun-drenched day softens, horizons subside

Noon was a young man with dreams in his stride

Time slows its gait now, forgets its demands

Undresses wishes with whisper-like hands

Noise on the highway is muffled with dark

Boys and girls slumber, somewhere a dog barks

Moon is a skiff set a-drift all alone

Stars splay like broken glass caught in the sun

Jasmine and clover perfume heaven’s wand

Salt-flavored wind-skin-heart-sea-song are one

Temptation is a word too young for us

Darling, the night is blurred with dew and dust

Touch is a servant to thought’s hungry eyes

We’ve known each other too long for surprise

Summer breeze murmurs in raven-leafed trees

Earth is half-heaven on midnights like these

© Janet Martin