Summer
‘Sumer is icumen in’?
Not evident to me!
-Except in fits and starts. Such
Heat and light we used to see
Each year far more dependably-
Year after year, it seemed,
Days long and languorous would stretch,
Heady, hot-dazing, deemed
Delightful in those play-filled hours:
So much grass, sky and time!
Exhilarating now, recalled
Devotedly, since I’m
Much older (my half century).
Years flicker past like trains;
Such looking back along the tracks
Soothes chills, and loss, and pains.
[Final line: alternatively, 'Soothes chill[s?] of loss and pains.' - which of the three is best? I liked ending on 's' - which happended naturally - as it completes a cycle back to the first line beginning with 's' - for Summer.]
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