November sun haiku

Brightly shone the sun
as if to bid November
a cheery welcome

©Jemverse

Photo – Jempics

Winter sun II

It does a heart proud when the sun takes a turn
and chases the grey to replace with a burn
As when you awake to see puddles and rain
it's great when it changes to see sunshine again
For it lifts up the spirit, lips curl to a smile
something all of us need every once in a while

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Back in the garden

Got back in the garden
as sunshine returned
and warmth overhead
through an afternoon burned

Yes when it rains
this place I have spurned
but its beauty remains
that lesson I've learned

So today as the weather
imperceptibly turned
I'm back in the garden
that much it has earned

©Jemverse

Photo – Jempics

The pride of September

Ah, the beach hut, lovely place
warm sunshine there in my face
no hint of breeze, well - just a trace
September does us proud

Just back in August we were bereft
as from July the summer left
but now it's back with hand of deft
September does us proud

And now we're back here at the beach
not far from home, in easy reach
a thing or two to August teach
September does us proud

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Photo – Jempics

Back

And this is heaven, thirty plus
Here in September, all the fuss
of August that abandoned us
when summer wasn't here

The sunshine's hot just overhead
and I am basking here instead
with no bad weather coming dread
now summer's clearly here

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Photo – Sally Croucher

Last Day 8

8 of 12 in the ‘Last Day 23’ series

And with last day of August come
we've seen some rain and also sun
Quite a lot of rain and wind
almost as if the month had sinned
with punishment for misdemeanour
summer this month has been meaner
Though as we end on this last day
the sun is back, hip hip hooray
And it is hot and I'm in shorts
just right and proper, as I ought

©Jemverse

Photo – Sally Croucher

The Parade

They said there'd be wind
and they said there'd be rain
but when the day dawned
there was sunshine again
So the drums beat a rhythm
and the parade went ahead
and umbrellas gave way
to sun hats instead

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Photo – Jempics

August…

Pen to paper, three weeks back
when cruel July weather
far from the summer sun we'd known
abandoned altogether
to wind and rain and chilly air
grey skies and sodden ground
Which is not what we'd expect
to see this time of year around

So I'm rather hoping passing time
when these words see light of day
finds summer gracing us again
with sunshine out to play
For really that's what August
with no fickle nuance there
should be to us in summer
for the warmth we love to share

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Photo – Jempics

 

Last Day 6

6 of 12 in the ‘Last Day 23’ series

It's been more or less a month
of sunshine every day
Just the way it should be
now summer's here to stay

So here on thirtieth of June
when evening comes to call
I think a loud applaud is due
as we have loved it all

Midsummer day nine days ago
has been and passed us by
But we're more summer yet to come
tomorrow with July

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Photo – Jempics

Solstice III

Once again the longest day
Solstice mystery endowed
as pilgrims gather on the hills
to sing the ancient song aloud
June twenty-first in summertime
the jubilant throng proclaim
lambasting solstice to the fore
and calling out its name

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Photo – detail from Van Gogh’s ‘sunflowers’ – Jempics