Literary Hook: Poem helps us celebrate summer’s delights
Posted By Jim Hagerty On July 27, 2011 @ 6:52 am In Literary Hook, Vibe Entertainment, Vibe Entertainment News | No Comments
By Christine Swanberg
Author and Poet
This is the time of year when gardens burst with flowers, butterflies and birds — a time to celebrate summer’s delights. Here is a poem that does just that.
Garden Pleasures
The hummingbird hovers
over ruby bergamot —
soft summer dusks.
Each day, another swallowtail
floats by, landing on pink
cone flowers and milk pods.
At the suet, a downy woodpecker
hangs upside-down,
the chickadee rightside-up.
Cottage-bound cats curl near
clumps of French lavender and
prairie grasses grown round as hay stacks.
Sparrows land on phlox.
Families of goldfinch pull out
sunflowers from feeders daily.
Butter-and-eggs bloom on wispy stalks,
and everyday for no apparent reason —
sun on lilies and black-eyed Susans.
Indigo sky at twilight —
Venus ablaze, and always
the moon in her many corsets.
This poem was first published in Mid-America Review.
Article printed from The Rock River Times: http://rockrivertimes.com
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