A Paul Dunbar poem to celebrate the summer solstice
Tag Archives: summer
When at the Beach, Nature Takes Over
This William Meredith captures summer on the beach.
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Two Poems to Welcome in Summer
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
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
Hilda Doolittle captures heat such as we are currently experiencing it.
To Welcome in June, Stand and Stare
To celebrate June, just sit back, relax, and observe.
Sumer Is i-Cumin In
Nothing welcomes in the summer as well as this medieval lyric.
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Ensnar’d with Flow’rs I Fall on Grass
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
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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