Gather in the sun
Make the most
Before it’s done
Watch ripples
One last time
See the flowerings
Nature’s won
Meditate on how
Summer’s changed
The evening show
And even birdsong
Before season’s reel
And greying days
We all will know
Farewell now
To kind and warm
Before the storm
Before the spike
Of needle wind
And open souls
transformed.
Let us be caressed
like refreshed lovers,
underneath fingertip rain.
Let us lie below the sky
and feel the wake up calls,
falling like soft arrows -
into valleys of tired skin.
Let us smile amid the downpour.
Let us swim in rivers formed.
It is Summer and now
we should welcome rain.
It’s the colour that she wears
and I see her everywhere.
I see her in the trees
and in the hillside shows,
I see her on the grassy mounds
and in bankside river flow.
She throws a shawl upon the land
and celebrates her verdance found.
It’s the colour that she wears
and I see it everywhere.