Poems

Chapter 85: SUMMER

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About This Book

A varied collection of lyric and narrative verse that moves between short songs, sonnets, rondels, and longer meditative pieces. Many poems use pastoral and seasonal imagery to celebrate fields, harvest, and the sensory life of the natural world while also acknowledging the hardships and dignity of rural labor. Recurring themes include love, absence, memory, and spiritual longing, treated with formal variety and musical language. The tone alternates between celebratory, elegiac, and reflective, blending vivid description with moral and emotional observation.

SUMMER

Sea and sand and here our small home’s place is

Where the low suns flush the warm wide land

Golden flooding, till the whole world’s face is

Sea and Sand.

Far beyond our horizons, expand

Happy bays—they say: but the wave’s race is

Toward our love-bound island, tempest-banned.

Here for you and me the season’s grace is,

Here the heart’s response, the touch of hand

Make love’s universe, and Heaven’s embrace is

Sea and Sand.