Sonnet Summer Poems

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. The word is love." Sophocles, Greek Poet 

How is the tender word love...

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In heavy noonday heat cicadas sing
Bright sun teases my skin with hot caress
Colourful birds in palm spread lovely wings
Momentarily speechless I digress.

Each year without failing...

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 A bird sings an ode to twilight
 Composed just for those purple skies
 Tomorrow when dawn breaks light
 It will sing a sonnet to...

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Summer Sonnet.
Missing her in the height of summer,
She left so soon, my heart swoons in sorrow
Missing her so far, as the morning sun glows,
As midnight...

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After the glistening stars have spoken,
Night has fallen, soft and quiet, with poise,
Reflecting all the hearts that have broken,
Shattered by the winds, such a ghastly...

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Shall I count the ways I love her?
No, that's been done too well before.
Calculate the stars above her,
Or waves as they caress the shore?
Oh, I...

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I am now "away from the noise,"  
my fruit gum I am chewing.  
Sitting here wondering what the boys,  
could be doing.  

 
 
Now all unpacked,  
a book I...

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South of Sahara the winter arrives
Bouquet of warblers has already left
Flying to warmer climes where they will thrive
Focused on summer winter not bereft.

Small Willow Warblers...

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The breeze annoying trees entices me,
I drift away    afar to fields abloom,
with silver tongues untied their whispers free —
..ah, prairie-weed does burn...

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Bright and clear is the day,
The sun is on joyful wings,
Mirth holds sway,
We're saddled with all that light brings.

Drenched colours wear a happy face,
We're haloed...

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The watery sun lifts up in the sky,
Water gently glimmers with small breeze formed waves,
Birds start to twitter as they get ready to fly,
Animals start...

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Summer is the season that brings forth buds and blooms,
When every hill and vale in green livery, clad,
When the busy bee around opening flower zooms,
And...

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Delightful Summer, how I welcome thee
With the sun shining high above my head, 
It's vacation time, children are now free
To enjoy the beach, or be...

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Thrilling summer hums song blithe in delight….
Lustrous flowers emerge in golden fields,
Festive abundance of colours in sight -
O luscious Beauty, how sweet fragrance yields!

Trees sway...

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Is a rose of red, or white just a rose?
they have the scent to hypnotize us all,
some flowers’ scent like jasmine's is intense,
reminds me of...

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