Love Letter To the Turtles

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Kenia's Wed. Challenge (Poetry In Motion)

Summer Song

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 Through lazy afternoons the summers pass

I walk barefooted through the new mowed grass

Grasshoppers gambol underneath my feet

As August moves to its unhurried beat

A hummingbird sips nectar from a flower

Hypnotized, I lose track of the hour

The scent of honeysuckle fills the air

Its sweetness nips my tongue and lingers there

The silken wings of butterflies alight

On fragrant flowers colorful and bright

Once the pace slows down I hear the hush

The summer's torpid tempo can't be rushed

Again I learn that here is the sublime

In this moment, living all the time.

submitted for dVerse Poets Pub, Form For All, Clarian Sonnets