Monday 20 June 2016

Summer Solstice


A poem for the summer solstice today. Wishing you lots of light and flung gold this summer!


Summer - WS Mervin

Be of this brightness dyed
Whose unrecking fever
Flings gold before it goes
Into voids finally
That have no measure.

Bird-sleep, moonset,
Island after island,
Be of their hush
On this tide that balance
A time, for a time.

Islands are not forever,
Nor this light again,
Tide-set, brief summer,
Be of their secret
That fears no other.

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