© C A Lovegrove
Midsummer madness!
Bald head browning, not quite burnt;
must remember hat.
First posted 20th June 2014.
Midsummer
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Summer
one adder
does not
a summer make
as Aristotle
said not
First posted 9th June 2014.
Disbelief
© C A Lovegrove
Summer memories
of simmering heat and sea?
Winter disbelief.
Nine word story and senryu rolled into one (image: Broad Haven South, Pembrokeshire); first posted 24th January 2015.
Week upon week
© C A Lovegrove
Careful what you wish for.
A proper summer? Hot days
with wall-to-wall sunshine?
False memories of winter:
cloudy skies, gun-metal grey,
lashings of rain curtaining down.
Was it always like that?
Or were there blue skies in between?
And now we have week upon week
of parched lawns, diminished rivers, moorland fires and painful sunburn, sleepless nights and short tempers.
Bring back a touch of winter:
promise-crammed clouds of black and grey,
replenishing streams, greening grass,
dampening moorland, cooling skin
and brows. Blessed, blissful rain.
But – careful what you wish for.
First posted 30th June 2018.
Green
© C A Lovegrove
Sun-drenched summer swathes
of green fields now parched pale brown;
so come, welcome rain.
First posted 24th June 2014.
Heat
Thunder teases, promised downpour,
does as it pleases, laughs the more,
you hate the heat, it piles it on,
you feel just beat, all pleasure gone.
Last week
Image: WordPress Free Media Library photo
Sunshine wall to wall day
Mind you stay in the shade day
Choose sun protection factor 30 day
When’s it going to stop day
Thirsty day
Frying under the sun day
Sweaty day
Sunburnt day
Doggerel days
So autumn comes to southern climes:
bid farewell now to summer,
the best of times. The worst of times?
When fingers get much number.
Dog days are the really hot days of summer when Sirius the ‘dog star’ briefly appears before the sun dawns in the northern hemisphere. Doggerel days can be at any other time
This piece of doggerel was inspired by a post on the blog Gert Loveday’s Fun with Books.
on the wing
Fledgling swallows in the barn ready to fly the nest
fighter planes saving
our world from midges: not so
deafening, swallows
housemartins mowing
through air, hoovering insects,
tweeting on the wing
zapping up to nests
mud and spittle under eaves
crap on window sills
JUne 16 post re-posted
break
Ducks at rest, fountain, Rhosygilwen, Pembrokeshire
Two months, sixty posts
Miles of micropoetry
Time now for a break
Zenrinji is taking a summer break, back in September
But don’t go away! Explore posts you may have missed
Enjoy the (mostly) original accompanying photographs
Before you know it there’ll be new ones on the list!
then and now
vistas, then and now:
what a difference some months
make to the outlook
window seat
winter blues banished
warm sun heating window seat
seasons come and go
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