The summer rains they came today
washing winter woes away
seems so long since they were here
welcome back old friend to near and dear
memories awakened from the sky
with the petrichor of years gone by
precipitating dreams of lazy days
illuminating sunbeams in a haze
which full-circle brought me back to you
and the fun things we used to do
walking on weekends in the park
looking like bookends on a bench after dark
sun-drenched rain-soaked anyhow
but where in the world are we now
Categories:
sunbeams, rain, romantic, seasons, summer,
Form: Rhyme
glass bottle vase
takes prideful place,
reflecting sunbeams
upon poverties face
Categories:
sunbeams, flower,
Form: Free verse
Africa, gentle your fiery wild blaze,
Lest heat waves plunder my safari days.
I seek adventure, wild, fun-filled and free,
Not scorching sunbeams that beg to drain me.
The savannah's golden vastness beckons,
Two giraffes emerge, my stares they reckon,
Their eyes bright, like ancient wisdom, meet mine,
My camera begs to flaunt their design.
Their gaze gave a shared fleeting scary bond,
My heart beats fast, with great wonder beyond,
The shutter clicked to a frozen delight,
Memorable moments captured pure bright.
Categories:
sunbeams, adventure, africa, heart, sun,
Form: Rhyme
sun's rays beam on land
soaking up excess water
clouds become heavy
Categories:
sunbeams, sky,
Form: Haiku
See
…a monarch butterfly’s
silently
fast fluttering wings
flickering shadows
breaking
sunbeams…
—
(with inspiration from
Darlene DeBeaulieu’s poem “The Rain”)
(c) sally young eslinger 7/9/2024
Thanks to God ——
Categories:
sunbeams, butterfly, flying, imagery, summer,
Form: Imagism
In the barn turned snack bar,
I scraped the face of my big toe
ascending the stairs. I didn’t care.
Sucrose sweets, summertime treats
belonged between my loosening teeth
Rotting wood, bumblebees
yellow plastic baseball bats
rolling hills flowed in the break of trees
God was shaking the dust out of his welcome mats
At the time He appealed to me, because
sunbeams were his means to call us home,
His warm tender tractor beam
pulling souls wherever they shone
so encapsulating
so intoxicating
so comforting
Please harpoon me my Lord of Light
pull me in, I’m a prize of a catch.
For every day that I stay here, a chipwich
becomes a less appealing snack.
Categories:
sunbeams, angst, childhood, god, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Frightened foxes
Seek night for
Chicken-stealing
Birds are free from
Guilt-consciousness
They predate
What they predate
In daylight
?
Ethical equilibrium!
Categories:
sunbeams, nature,
Form: Free verse
A glint of iridescent light
reflects colors that catch my eye;
flickering in and out of time.
A stunning splendiferous sight;
a dazzling hummingbird drops by,
its reflective sheen; so sublime.
Watching it is a true delight
for they are always on the fly,
hovering, turning on a dime.
Shimmering, fluorescent, and bright;
are apt adjectives that apply
to this harbinger of springtime.
When sunbeams and feathers entwine,
emerald and scarlet hues shine.
Categories:
sunbeams, beautiful, beauty, bird, color,
Form: Rhyme
As the sun's beams of light pierce through this solemn morning's clouds,
My own heart's mournings are echoing beyond the atmosphere's shrouds
Into the vastest void we call space, away from Earth's crowds.
Categories:
sunbeams, grief, imagery, light, sky,
Form: Sijo
Imagination fills our heart with delights
Fairies, leprechauns, dragons, and such,
Doing things with a mere transient hunch
Taking us to see most remarkable sights
We can only experience in wildest dreams,
Real in our childhood, lost as we slowly age
Comes a time we dismiss wizard and sage.
But, I still believe in wishes and sunbeams
I see no harm in wishing on a distant star
Or tossing a coin in a beautiful fountain,
Believing we can climb the highest mountain
Or travel to exotic places calling from afar.
Categories:
sunbeams, adventure, childhood, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
(Even Poetry can recall the warm days of summer.)
** In the August Heat **
———————————————————————
August roasts the red pears
Sitting crowded on the sill…Spoiling
With no protection from
The open, lime-tinted curtains
Speckled with tiny violets.
Shimmering sunbeams stream diagonally
Through the room’s air, while outside,
A lost cricket, cornered under a deck step,
Chirps! A repeating string of chirps!
His true place is elsewhere
In the night, by a willing mate. The natural
Balance of his 250-million-year-old species
Is upset — with only the heat sustaining him…
With his chirping! Chirping rondo!
With the promise that she will come.
So, there he crouches. Night…Night will come.
Heat will stay. His summer life yet has time to go.
So he waits. Chirping! His chorus repeats!
She will come. They will touch when meeting
Then flee on to their otherwhere.
The coming night’s course will please.
So he waits…Earnestly chirping!
Feeling the vibrations along his black back,
He waits. In his summoning melody,
He chirps! And, she will come.
———————————————————-
(c) sally young Eslinger 1/2022
Categories:
sunbeams, imagery, imagination, nature, night,
Form: Prose Poetry
Sunbeams Moonbeams
Morning
Nascent, fresh
Yawning, stretching, chirping
Sunrise, sunbeams, nightfall, moonbeams
Floating, fantasizing, dreaming
Magical, mystical
Eventide
8-31-21
Contest: Diamante
Sponsor: Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
sunbeams, moon, morning, night, sun,
Form: Diamante
Sunbeams dancing branch to branch
Play before my eyes
I walk in peace and wonder
Solis smiles from the skies
Amidst the tall and swaying trees
Filled with life, I breathe
Of Earths perfumes, a soft delight
which floats upon the breeze
The soft, yet mighty tender love
Echoes to each twig and leaf
Let there be light, let there be life
Birds sing the sweet relief
My footfalls, hushed in carpet of
The leaves of yesterday
I walk in humbled wonder
As I watch the sunbeams play
Categories:
sunbeams, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
lost in her look
and knowing sadness has strayed
Categories:
sunbeams, poetry,
Form: Free verse
ten am, a July morning
There is a holy presence out here
I cannot see it, but I feel it
I sense spiritual orbs and whorls
invisible to my human eye
emitting from the streams of the sun’s dust streams
garden soaks up the rays like a starving man
marigolds, day lilies and lilac smile their appreciation
ruffled and pretty, delicate and fine
Categories:
sunbeams, garden, sun,
Form: Light Verse
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