Friday, August 30, 2019
ADIEU TO AUGUST 2019 By Polly Guerin
August memories will always linger in my heart
With the first kiss of summer's embrace to start
Brought hotter summer days and cooler nights
We shed our rigid persona and free, took flight
The heat cooled off by the welcome thunder rain
Wild flowers and green meadows refreshed again
Cooing birds and Crickets orchestrated the night
The plein air was pungent fresh to our delight
The last rose of summer on a white picket fence
A Nantucket cottage we stayed a week for rent
The aroma of the imperial sea lingers ever long
As it washes ashore with its roaring ancient song
Colorful sea glass sprinkled on the sandy shore
Building sand castles, foreign lands to explore
To live in the sunshine, swim away into the sea
Drink in the wild dulcet air renew you and me
Sitting under the umbrella with a book I agree
Savor the lucent images of Nirvana sets us free
August has passed yet summer wants to linger on
Between the pages of the next month they prolong
Sweeter dreams and treasured memories keeping
We bid farewell to August's golden days seeking
Oh! Happy Day! the happiest chapter of the year
With new postcard memories treasured my dear
Yet, another beautiful day, it's summer's last call
Interjects it golden heritage into the start of fall
Thursday, August 1, 2019
ADIEU TO JULY 2019 By Polly Guerin
Everything good, everything magical
Seemingly happens in the summer
But July turned into a hot plate griddle
And the days just lay there and sizzled
The blood red Ruby is your birthstone
Passionate, dramatic you are not alone
With admirers around your golden flame
July hangs on the top of summer's game
Sultry days and dewy nights so it seems
Gives us pause to linger and to dream
As sea glass sparkles in the ocean sun
Stories of foreign lands have just begun
Beach books let us read and make plan
To vicariously visit some enchanted land
And sleep the sleep of dreams come true
Live in the sunshine, swim away, renew
Drink in the wild sea air and lose yourself
Leave worries behind store then on a shelf
Fill your baskets high with golden pines
Cool parsley, basil sweet and sunny thyme
Gather up memories on a dewy morning
Tuck them into a notebook, never boring
With July at the top of the livelong year
Gather sweet memories so close, so dear.
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