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(Entry for the Half Past Summer, Two Months Till Fall Poetry Contest, sponsored by Andrea Dietrich, submitted July 18, 2025)

Half Past Summer, Two Months Till Fall

it's half past summer
and the best is yet to come...
warm temps...then cooler
in August through September
the harvest beckons and stirs

summertanka

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Andrea Dietrich

July 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM

Nice reflective tanka. Congrats and thanks for your participation, Jim

Jim Healey

July 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM

Thank you, Andrea. Always a pleasure. Take care.

FJ Thomas

July 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM

A lovely tanka Jim :) Though where I live the month of August may very well kill you lol.

FJ Thomas

July 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM

Summers there sound lovely, but I have a feeling I wouldn't be able to handle the winters lol. I do enjoy a cup of tea, not only iced tea as we US Southerners are stereotyped with... although I do enjoy a nice glass of sweet tea hehe

Jim Healey

July 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM

Fortunately, I live in Canada, next to the Atlantic Ocean, so summers are not too intense. Glad you enjoyed the tanka. (And I like your avatar! I take it that you love tea. So do I!) Take care. Jim

sara Etgen-Baker

July 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM

hot here now in Texas and will be till mid September. Leaves fall off the trees due to the heat and not from the changing of the seasons...I'm already looking forward to those cooler temps you mention. Best wishes with the contest, Sara

Jim Healey

July 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM

Thank you, Sara. The past 3 days here have seen temps in the high 60s - low 70s (Fahrenheit) range. Not bad.