It seems as though you are still summer:
The leaves still green atop your trees
Waves still warm inside your eyes
Sunrise haze in your sky
Sunset late to bed
As sleep lights in
Your soft breath
Upon
Mine.
NONET prompt: “It seems as though you are still summer” (Merwin)
For dVerse poetic 9
Photo prompt: Todd Foltz
“Are you sure it will work?”
Tim’s chin bobbed up and down enthusiastically.
A bit too enthusiastically. It looked suspiciously like an I’m-clueless-but-want-to-pretend-I’m-not kind of nod.
Benny frowned. He had a bad feeling about the whole plan. “I still think we should have brought a proper pan.”
“Nah,” Tim waved his hand and pointed to the ball of molten orange glaring at them from the horizon. The light shimmered. “They said it was going to be hot enough to fry eggs.”
“In the carton? Don’t you need to crack them first?”
Tim shrugged. “We can always make hard boiled ones.”
For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Life is stacked like so
Many layers of summer
In the Central Park.
(Note: While I do resent the growing need to face reality of summer heading to an end, I accept the challenge for increased layer-awareness … 😉 ).
For the Sunday Stills challenge: Seasonal Layers
Photo: Philip Coons
Just you wait
And you’ll see
The real brave
I will be!
I will walk
With feet bare
From right here
To right there,
Without wobble
At all
I will cross
And not fall!
Note: It is WAY too early yet for me to do anything relating to the other meaning of the prompt word. So, nope … it was gonna be a “not” for me … 😉
For The Tuesday Photo Challenge: Fall
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
Stop to breathe,
Take in ease,
Back to bark in
Summer breeze.
Shadow’s cool
City’s still,
In the park
Time to chill.
For the Sunday Stills challenge: Stillness
Photo: Inbar Asif
Bright as rays
Flowers glow
Soaked in warmth
Large they grow
Seeds of sun
They then sow.
Photo: Na’ama Yehuda
There was a small patch
Of pink
In the large sea
Of green.
Flowers with
Heads together
Like bouquets
Fit for a queen.
For the September Pink Squares Challenge
Photo: Osnat Halperin-Barlev
Evening comes.
Sun slides down
Child at play
Lapping light
Close at hand:
Summertime.
For the Weekly Photo Challenge: Summertime
Photo: Inbar Asif
If you’re out and about
But your thirst is quite real
There’s a clear stream awaiting
To help you chill your fill.
For the Sunday Still Challenge: Summer drink
Photo: Dvora Freedman
In the endless, languid days of summer
When hubris and humidity nixes
Facts and kindness
Into haze,
Lays the promise of a fall soon coming
Where saner, cooler heads
May well usher in
Better days.
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