Solstice Summer Poems

Have you ever seen the brightest summer full moon so soon
In the half-overcast sunset long after a fine afternoon.
Shifting cloudy sky darkens as I walk...

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The Daily Star Thursday issue...

announces Summer Solstice 2024
regarding purr ray zing planetary earthlings
paying obeisance to god/goddess of the sun 
Thursday, June twentieth
at 4:51 Post Meridian
Eastern...

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Summer Quatrains – Swap Quatrains 6-19-24
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Summer Quatrains

Silk ribbons of ice melt into wellsprings
With jubilant serenades, heartfelt,
Frozen heartbeats freed from rime flow on wings
Into wellsprings silk...

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The summer solstice
in years past so much welcomed...
now there's foreboding:
soaring temps, wildfires, drought...
idyllic days are numbered....

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“Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.” -Elizabeth Lawrence


Still, soft colors
like blushing roses,
dew kissed,...

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He’s left me as Fall fell
He’s taken Spring and Summer 
I'm stuck here in Winter
Arctic wolves hunt my mind 
The dark vices come for me
Here...

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Summer Minstrels and Songsters

Crickets
Summer songsters
Music of the night
Back porch lullabies, serenade
Singers

Newborn
Cicadas buzz
Yawn and stretch in warm sun
Bright eyes see magnolia trees
Minstrels

Summer
Fireflies twinkle
Magic song of stars
Like...

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 Climate summer shifts solstice wind burn sees
Time earliest sunrise and sunset breaths 
 Radiant hot temp blistering heats weaves
 Happens longest days the years...

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summer afternoons

hot breath of summer
 even the dark shadows sweat ~
  solstice stupor

sweltering doldrums
 heat waves rise on sallow breaths ~
  only the...

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Out in the sun's light,
There's no gloom to fight,
I'm haloed by the sun's glory,
I'm poised for the day.

The day harbingers mirth,
A sultry symphony its elements...

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 The ocean warms my freshly covered feet
enjoying picnics and barbecues
cutting grass and drinking water
view joy peaceful tasty treats
solstice comes without sound
where peach trees abound
no...

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solstice heat

first days of summer
 solstice heat simmers and sweats ~
  cool blue waves hug shores

summer heat rises
 rushes past swirling fog banks ~
...

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Written: June 25, 2023

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Beguile me, July sun, with your hot, penetrating glare,
A star of careless seizure, I can't avail but stare.
I lust for your soulmate,...

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Sitting here on this stoop
My mind is a hollowed husk
My heart a lukewarm soup
Cooling off with the dusk

Petting my old black cat
I watch the rising...

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It’s the first day of summer, 
But feeling like fall,
The chilliest solstice
That I can recall.

Now, I’m not complaining;
I like when it’s cool,
But for June 21st
It...

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