Tag: Summertime

Suspended 
in the sound of leaves 
mimicking water's hushed 
rush under the 
chee-chee-hee-hee of 
goshawks and sparrows 
countered by a duck's
scolding call
 
Dry yellow grass
interrupted in its plodding
monologue by the 
impudence of green
upstarts stretching towards
evening's golden light 

Whistling songs alight on
the breeze as stripey things
buzz around blossoms
and petals soaking up
summer's short shining
 
Tall grasses who haven't met
this year's mower dance 
freedom of unbridled growth 
and the trees burst forth 
in songbirds of laughter 
leaves tickling their 
parchment-paper bark 

Coaxing them out of 
deep-rooted wonderings 
to play chase with the 
day's shadows 
and rock-a-bye 
lullaby in the 
slumbers  
of the 
night 

 -KJ Roe