Language of Summer

Summer speaks to me by waking me up early Playing tunes of beautiful song bird melodies Blowing cool breezes in early mornings Creating chimes of rustling tree leaves She speaks to me through marvels of elaborate spider webs Through various trees’ dazzling green shades Through fascinating designs on butterfly wings Through flutters of humming birds and dances of dragonflies She speaks to me by offering plums, peaches and numerous berries And various melons, figs and delicious cherries Growing scrumptious tomatoes in the garden for my luxury Exhibiting vivacious blooms on rose bushes and crape myrtle trees She speaks to me shining bright through brilliance of sunlight Warming the afternoons and dehydrating grasses on hillsides Crafting radiant sunsets and captivating afterglows of twilight skies Generating buzzing mosquitoes in stillness of evenings’ dim lights She speaks to me through an astonishing sight of a skunk mama and her adorable babies Showing a watchful face of a raccoon sitting in an oak tree Displaying an occasional slithering of a rattler or a snake native Birthing numerous insects and active lizard progenies Through magnificence of marvelous starry nights Through frog croaks and cricket lullabies Through precious waters of the lake Summer speaks to me and I listen with gratitude in my heart……