Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter… four seasons of vanishing or leading lines
Tag: Summer
The Quiet Battle
We left home several years ago in the wee hours of a January morning to attend a 10:00 funeral that was 3 1/2 hours away. On the drive we passed a beautiful farm where the morning fog was just beginning to lift. Last week we made the same trip for yet another funeral and we passed the farm again, but this time it was a bright summer’s day. I took both photos through the car window with my cell phone. Same farm, different season, years apart!
The following is a re-post of a story I wrote the first time I saw the farm:
THE QUIET BATTLE
Morning fog invades a lovely Kansas farm in the pre-dawn hours of a clear winter day. The fog will lie low for a spell, transforming rest into stubborn courage for the fight that looms ahead: an inevitable skirmish between Fog and Sun.
As Fog hunkers down, it blankets winter wheat and hugs the stubble of last year’s corn which lay dying in the field. It settles itself along the fence that separates the farm in stately fashion and it laces haunting fingers through the trees. It covertly surrounds the silo, the barn, the shed; and forms a luminous halo around the single light left burning to ward off possible dangers tempted to lurk in shadowed corners.
At sunrise, the battle begins. Fog is brave and refuses to yield, but the fight does not rage for long. Sun is a strong and formidable enemy. Flanked on all sides with no place to hide, Fog is swiftly defeated. Forced to surrender, a virtual white flag is waved as it retreats.
When the farm is fully bathed in golden rays, you would never suspect that a quiet battle had ever taken place here.
Foto Friday #9
Nothin’ says “summer” like throwing rocks into the water… every little boy’s joy!
Here’s a related haiku for Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge – Sates & Fuels:
His innocent dreams,
satiated by nature,
fueled by outdoor fun!
Shifting Seasons – a poem
It’s the middle of a long hot summer where I live, but I have the changing seasons to look forward too! In a few months my morning walks will be gold instead of green.
SHIFTING SEASONS
Roses are drooping
Petals are falling
Ground is scorched by
the heat of the sun
Moon is waning
Stars are hiding
Eeriness conquers
the dark velvet skies
Summer is folding
Autumn is calling
Crisp, pretty leaves
now crunch at my feet
Storm is brewing
Cold is looming
Icy winds bite at
the innocent breeze
Color is fading
Nothing is growing
Dreary days plague us
as winter sets in
Air is warming
Snow is melting
Clouds weep with joy
for hope has returned
Green is bursting
Birds are chirping
Spring has arrived
all’s right with the world!
Foto Friday #3
HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT
Summer arrived yesterday and with it, the blooming of one of my favorite flowers—the daisy. Daisies evoke the memory of plucking off petals one by one while reciting the phrase “he loves me” and “he loves me not”. This, according to my older-therefore-much-wiser sister, was an accurate prediction of a young man’s affection. It’s a good thing we had an abundance of daisies when we were growing up, as she and I would perform this whimsical little ritual over and over until we got the answers we wanted!
A Summer Haiku
It’s so hot today
I yearn for northerly gusts
and refreshing snow!
A Flower’s Summer Song
How rare, in summer, is a day like this
when the sun beams kindly on my face
and yesterday’s rain relieves my feet from the pain
of digging to the depths of this place.
All about my head are curls of pink and red,
though they’re brown on oppressive summer days
from the scorching of the sun, from dawn ’til day is done;
yet I thrive, and my colors are ablaze!
My arms, adorned with leaves, sway gently in the breeze,
a reprieve from the cruel and gusty gale.
From a heat I can’t forget, comes a strength I don’t regret
for it’s that which allows me to prevail.
I am a flower, I am in bloom;
and all I have to offer, all I have to give
is at its best on a rare day like today.
