It's Poetry Friday! Thanks, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater HERE at her blog, The Poem Farm, for hosting. She's welcoming the new school year with an invitation you will want to accept!
One of my favorite books that I re-read is Ray Branbury's Dandelion Wine, from which comes "Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in.”
My family didn't have the pleasure of going to the beach this summer but we will again, I am sure. Meanwhile, the memories flow.
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| Playa Tivives, Costa Rica - 2022 |
Bottled
Patiently, words - liquid and flowing,
astonishing, alarming on occasion –
wait for writers to arrange them with a pen.
First, this day,
they take a sip of summer,
smile with the sunset,
stay close to siblings,
watch cousins race to the water,
skip and splash, back again
to munch and grin,
Leaning on moms and dads, aunts, uncles, grandparents.
Linda Baie ©