Tag Archives: summer

When at the Beach, Nature Takes Over

By Robin Bates | Published: July 9, 2024

This William Meredith captures summer on the beach.

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Two Poems to Welcome in Summer

By Robin Bates | Published: June 19, 2024

To celebrate the first day of summer, here are two lovely summer poems, one by Emily Bronte, one by Mary Oliver.

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Remembering Summers Long Ago

By Robin Bates | Published: September 29, 2022

Poet Helen Mitsios thinks back to a perfect summer–as perhaps some of us are doing as the weather turns chilly.

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Cut the Heat, Plow Through It

By Robin Bates | Published: July 25, 2022

Hilda Doolittle captures heat such as we are currently experiencing it.

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To Welcome in June, Stand and Stare

By Robin Bates | Published: June 2, 2022

To celebrate June, just sit back, relax, and observe.

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Sumer Is i-Cumin In

By Robin Bates | Published: June 20, 2021

Nothing welcomes in the summer as well as this medieval lyric.

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Ensnar’d with Flow’rs I Fall on Grass

By Robin Bates | Published: August 1, 2019

Friday I found utterly dispiriting this past week’s Democratic debates in which candidates lasered in on tiny differences while a fire rages all around us. I haven’t wanted to relax my vigilance regarding Donald Trump since autocrats win when we become so worn down that we stop paying attention. Nevertheless, these two wretched debates made […]

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I Must Arise and Go There

By Robin Bates | Published: July 28, 2019

Monday Listening to the humming of our hummingbirds the other day, I thought of Yeats’s reference in “The Lake Isle of Inisfree” to linnet wings. I don’t think we have linnets in America and I can’t imagine that they make any sound at all, much less hummingbird buzzing. Still, Yeats conjures up images of feathery […]

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Celebrating the Sun

By Robin Bates | Published: June 20, 2019

Friday – Summer Solstice Cultures and civilizations since time immemorial have celebrated the summer solstice, with many magnificent works of architecture (including Stonehenge, the Temple of the Sun at Machu Picchu, the Egyptian pyramids, the Mayans’ Chichen Itza, and Scotland’s Ring of Brodgar) constructed so as to mark the date. Spiritual author Starhawk discusses the […]

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