Dear Summer....

While it rained the sun set...
SO beautiful!
Summer seems to be equal blends of euphoria and sweet sadness/longing!
It's moving along SO fast!

Soon the lyricists of autumn will be tuning your farewell

Weaving from your wake of echoes that which only wind can spell

Soon the cricket will be quiet leaving in its sea of sound

Tatters of a russet riot spilling wildly to the ground

Soon the airy arms of August will fill with bronze bric-a-brac

Tearing something from our Bearing that we never can get back

Soon we’ll look back on your shimmer; summer, soulful, bitter-sweet

As we worm back into sweaters and tug socks back onto feet

Knowing how, as even now we sense time’s ten-turbulent tug

There is taking in the giving no matter how hard we hug

© Janet Martin