Summer Is for This

Everything is green now.

In the fullness of her beauty

Midsummer blooms upon the land.

Lush, rounded, brimming

Summer is a full cup.

Listen to the leaf whispers

Hearken to the birdsong,

Find the flowering wildings,

Gather nature’s bounty

Summer is a brimming basket.

Everything is green now.

In the fullness of her beauty

Midsummer brightens every where,

Lush, rounded, fragrant

Summer is a full cup.

Summer is for this:

To give us green to gaze on,

A feast to fill us up, and

Time to be, without ambition.

Sun plus time equals Summer

Tasha Halpert