Tag Archives: Summer

“The Human Seasons” by John Keats [w/ Audio]

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Four Seasons fill the measure of the year;
   There are four seasons in the mind of man:
 He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear
   Takes in all beauty with an easy span:
 He has his Summer, when luxuriously 
   Spring's honied cud of youthful thought
     he loves
 To ruminate, and by such dreaming high
   Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves
 His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings
   He furleth close; contented so to look
 On mists in idleness -- to let fair things
   Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook.
 He has his Winter too of pale misfeature,
 Or else he would forego his mortal nature.

Wetlands Sunset [Haiku]

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Summer sunset
 glows on the wetlands,
  for a short time.

Late to the Hunt [Senryū]

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tardy deer hunter
 finds a deer grazing beside
  his hunter's stand.

Summer Color [Haiku]

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blooms & berries
 color the scrublands
  as summer peaks.

Magpie [Haiku]

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the magpie walks
 with head hung low,
  fooling no one.

Reptilian Investigations [Haiku]

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rock agama pops
 over the boulder's top:
  sniffs & scurries.

Hot Nights [Haiku]

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Summer sunset
 over the sprawling sea:
  blackness brings no cool.

“A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky” by Lewis Carroll [w/ Audio]

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A boat beneath a sunny sky,
 Lingering onward dreamily
  In an evening of July --

Children three that nestle near,
 Eager eye and willing ear,
  Pleased a simple tale to hear --

Long has paled that sunny sky:
 Echoes fade and memories die:
  Autumn frosts have slain July. 

Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
 Alice moving under skies
  Never seen by waking eyes.

Children yet, the tale to hear,
 Eager eye and willing ear,
  Lovingly shall nestle near.

In a Wonderland they lie,
 Dreaming as the days go by,
  Dreaming as the summers die:

Ever drifting down the stream --
 Lingering in the golden gleam --
  Life, what is it but a dream?

Summer Sparkle [Haiku]

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summer sunlight
 sparkles on a blue lake --
  always distantly.

Ducks Adrift [Haiku]

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a pond in summer:
 ducks look like wooden toys,
  drifting leisurely.