"Destined Minds"

BALMY SUMMER DAYS

hot summer has arrived
crackling thunder breaks and cries
and rolls through the air

warm filled pleasant days
as one lazes and reclines
and with ease reflects and stares

beyond the garden of greenery
and little purple stalks of flower
cooling herself with bamboo fan

thinks of the evening to come
when cool breeze and twinkling lights
fall down on her and her man

Balmy summer days allows the mind
to dream and drift to a wonder world of
imagination that flashes back to summers past

kids playing in the street till after dark
parents drinking laughing around the backyards table
as a game of hide and seek forever lasts

iceblocks and sunnboys all round for girls and boys
fighting over the red and orange tubes of ice
as maddening water fights burst out

and at last kids all soaked and dripping wet
have exhausted all but there last breath
and protest with dropped lip and pout

and now the wind picks up and cool breeze
rises and brings relief for all
so no the kids won't be going to bed

on that summer night they will be dancing
in the summer rain like droplets bouncing
as parents soon join the frey of what the kids have led

balmy summer days of the past
of those days and nights
we wish to relive over and again

but am I too much older and wise
will I watch from a distance the change in sky
or let my guard down and be a child once again

Maree Long
(c)Maree Long 2007