Weekly Photo Challenge: Summer
The Surfers’ Code – Manly Beach, Sydney
(The poem below is a re-post)
Suburban Summer
electric light show
rumbling closer,
scented star jasmine
mingling fragrance of rain,
thrum of cicadas
blending languid laughter,
glasses at the hills hoist
toasting vintage summer
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See the Daily Post for more entries to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Summer
Rogue
Once,
on a shimmering day,
I saw the sea fly up
Llandudno Beach
and swallow our sunwashed
detritus -
faded towels, Hang Ten slops, trashy
novels, footprints
ingested,
as we scramble-watched
it from the boulders,
churning back out to the horizon
with the indigestion
of our lives,
not looking back
to wave
Sky Wars
Storm ions mass,
stir up old injuries,
swelling cats’ paws,
silencing cockatoos mid-screech.
In the particle zoo,
darker the light
settles stillness unsettling
like a spine tingle…
Then
an electric spear is thrown,
punctures the tension.
Fat clouds, slow on the uptake,
grumble to rain
to wash it away.
Suburban summer
electric light show
rumbling closer,
scented star jasmine
mingling fragrance of rain,
thrum of cicadas
blending languid laughter,
glasses at the hills hoist
toasting vintage summer
