Summer Days
Languid days
Hammocks and lemonade
Water color paintings
Of lakes and water falls
Mystery novels under a tree
In the shade of a canopy of elms
Children running through lawn sprinklers
Or diving off cliffs into deep blue waters
Picturesque images of childhood fantasies
Playing through the mind’s eye
Like a stereoscopic slide show in slow motion
Cool breezes summoned as birds fly overhead
Wings spread in majestic harmony
As they scan the ground for food
Trout jumping in a nearby lake
Darting among rocks and evading anglers
Orange sunrise and pink sunsets
A cornucopia of color and a festival for the eye
A time for reverie and a repast for the soul
Taken by the hour and by the day
During the time known as summer
Bruce
Levine
Bruce Levine is a 2019 Pushcart Prize Poetry nominee, a 2021 Spillwords Press Awards winner and the Featured Writer in WestWard Quarterly Summer 2021. Over three hundred of his works are published on over twenty-five on-line journals including Ariel Chart, Spillwords, Literary Yard; in over seventy print books including Tipton Poetry Journal, Halcyon Days and Founder’s Favourites and his shows have been produced in New York and around the country. Visit him at
"A time for reverie and a repast for the soul
ReplyDeleteTaken by the hour and by the day" My favorite lines from this work. From Linda