summer – willowdot21

Ronovan Writes Sijo Wednesday Poetry Challenge #15. Use SUMMER as your inspiration this week.

Fields of gold stretch for miles to the horizon as far as the eye can see.
Sunflowers turn their faces to the sky yellow and green reaching for blue.
Gaia is at her best her skirts swirling around.

This is part of Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Sijo Challenge.

Ronovan Writes Sijo Wednesday Poetry Challenge #1. Use the word (BLUE) this week.

Our host Ron has suggested we try a new disapline this week, as the Décima Challenge has come to an end after 100 weeks. The Sijo, a Korean form believed to have first been used in the fourteenth century. It is similar in structure to various Japanese forms such as Haiku. As with many forms of poetry, the Sijo became a preferred poetry form of the yangban or ruling class as well as royalty. They were written in Chinese and were originally short songs set to music. The focus of the Sijo is usually nature and contemplation. We’ll try that to begin with.

There are:

Three Lines
14-16 syllables per line
A total of 44-46 syllables for the entire poem.
To know how many syllables in a particular word try HowManySyllables.com. Here is my first attempt summer.

Summer

Summer spreads her green and floral skirt, her bare feet covered in dew.

Tripping lightly through the meadows spreading her hues as she goes.

Each day, her hair wreathed in blue she brings beauty to all of us.

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THIS IS PART OF RONOVANWRITE’S WEEKLY SIJO CHALLENGE.

37 words
206 characters
46 syllables.

Wordless Wednesday. Two seasons in one day.

Monday Morning © willowdot21

Autumn in the air.

Image © willowdot21

Autumn in the air.

There are blackberries in the hedgerow

And a chill is in the morning air

The red berries are starting to show

Seems Summer’s left without a care.

Conkers in their protective green spiky coats.

Laying expectantly on the ground

The days are getting shorter

And leaves are falling all around

Autumn is a coming I feel it on the air

Summer’s preparing to fold up her deck chair.

Thursday Photo Prompt. Summer

This is part of Sue Vincent’s Thursday Photo Prompt.

Summer.

Days when we were young

Stretching out forever full of fun.

Days of freedom days of sun

Days before life became undone.

Summer fields green and white

Blue skies with feathered clouds

Sounds of voices, happy, loud

Summer days before we grew

To see summer with eyes no longer new.💜

#writephoto

Lune Day 19

At Kat Myrman‘s suggestion,along with Jane Dougherty, I’m trying out the Lune form this month. The Lune is a three line poem, either 5/3/5 syllables or 3/5/3 words.

Let us Lune for June

Summer will

Be here very soon.

RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #103 Summer&Fun

The sky is clear blue

Summer fun down to the beach

Arrival brings rain. duporth2

Summer sun shines high

Sandwiches on the front lawn

Fun under blue sky

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Long evenings of fun

Followed by mid summer nights

Moon reflects the sun.

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Images 1 here

Image 2 here

Image 3 here

Song Lyric Sunday : Summer

The very talented Helen at This Thing called Life One Word at a Time told us that : The theme for Song Lyric Sunday on June 19th is “Summer“. Pick a song that makes you think of summer, that has the word in the title or lyrics, or pick one of your own that has nothing to do with the theme. We’re all open to sharing and listening to new, amazing music. Most of all, just enjoy the process.

Rules and pingback here

And here

So which song is most evocative of summer in my mind ? Well there are many in fact too numerous to mention. So I closed my eyes and let my mind slip off to wherever as I thought of summer. The first song that entered my head was Summer Breeze , and it was not the Isley Brother’s version but the beautiful Seals and Croft version I was hearing. The song takes me back to 1972 the year after I got married. Happy carefree days.

So here we are please enjoy!

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SUMMER BREEZE

See the curtains hangin’ in the window
In the evenin’ on a Friday night
Little light is shinin’ through the window
Lets me know everything’s alright

Summer breeze, makes me feel fine
Blowing through the jasmine in my mind
Summer breeze, makes me feel fine
Blowing through the jasmine in my mind

See the paper layin’ on the sidewalk
A little music from the house next door
So I walked on up to the doorstep
Through the screen and across the floor

Summer breeze, makes me feel fine
Blowing through the jasmine in my mind
Summer breeze, makes me feel fine
Blowing through the jasmine in my mind

Sweet days of summer, the jasmine’s in bloom
July is dressed up and playing her tune
And I come home from a hard day’s work
And you’re waiting there, not a care in the world

See the smile awaitin’ in the kitchen
Food cookin’ in the plates for two
Feel the arms that reach out to hold me
In the evening when the day is through

Summer breeze, makes me feel fine
Blowing through the jasmine in my mind
Summer breeze, makes me feel fine
Blowing through the jasmine in my mind

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