These little beauties
homegrown rascals
hang their heads up high
tossing petal smirks
at impending Old Man Winter
They keep summer near
close at hand
voting for eternal spring
the Reaper is nigh
and far to the north
Til then,
they will saunter and linger
as a sad torch singer
breaks into lament
and a Blue Norther blasts
the dewy dreams
of a summer now passed.
This little poem is dedicated to my blogging friends who, like me, love summer and wish to hang onto it. I am still lucky enough to have my flowers and will really miss them when they are gone. Until then, I’m sharing some summer and sunshine to all of you!
That’s beautiful! I still have flowers too. I guess by End of Dec they will be gone.
Thanks, Holly. Mine will probably last until the end of the month or into December depending on the weather. 😀
they are amazing L.T. It is sad to see them vanish with the cold! 🙂
That looks as if you are still in high summer – Is your winter a short and sweet one?
Pauline, our winter is a weird one. We have cold fronts that are known as “cold snaps” or “blue northers.” It will get really cold for a few days and then warm up. If it is cold for a week or two at once, then that’s a really long time. Still, it can be brutal. Last winter we had a couple days where the high was 7 degrees. That is Wisconsin cold, and rarely happens here, but it can. I hate winter, but that’s just me. I guess it is summer where you are. Enjoy! 😀
I like your use of opposites in this piece, Lana: beauties/rascals, heads hanging/high, winter/summer, close/far. Also, the offhand rhyming: high/nigh, winter/linger/singer, blasts/passed. Your flowers are gorgeous. Except for one inexplicably still-blooming red geranium, all of my posies fell victim to an early frost. 🙂
I’d say that geranium has some attitude! Thanks so much, Joan. My friend Jim who lives further up north asked for a glimpse of my flowers after I mentioned on one of his posts that I still had them. So I wrote a little poem to go with the pics. I sure will miss them when they are gone!
Summer cheer is always welcome!
Yes, I agree! I’ll bet you have some great sunny California weather during the winter months 😀
I am hanging on to summer too but I do not have flowers as beautiful as these. Cheers to a mild November so far!
I think we are lucky here in Texas. I’m certainly lucky with my flowers this year. Definitely cheers to a mild November! 😀
Beautiful and colourful… simply gorgeous, Lana. Thanks for sharing your garden! 😃 ♥️
Thank you, Iris. Color is so inspiring and makes me happy. Glad you liked them 😀
beautiful. absolutely. beautiful.
Thanks Jim!
Lovely words and flowers! We have hardly anything still blooming here. It’s nice to see that you do. 🙂
Thank you, Betty. We are lucky here, sometimes it happens that way and we can’t hardly tell that it isn’t spring. It can be truly crazy through, as we never know what to expect. Wishing you a lovely season!
And the same to you, Lana!
Still so pretty, Lana. Beautiful poem and I, too, wish it was still summer. We are full into the rainy season! Ugh. Gray days through May. 🙂
Awe, I dislike those gray days, but some string lights and houseplants do wonders for the creative spirit 😀
Lights I can handle. The houseplants don’t like me. 🙂
Lana, I’m just pea-green over these beauties (though my inside geraniums are in full bloom!!) Thanks so much for sharing your flowers with those of us looking at a mostly brown world now — of course, we’ll be wishing for brown when the snows start flying, ha!
Oh yes we will be wishing for brown when winter arrives with those cold, north winds!
Reblogged this on John Cowgill's Literature Site.
Thanks John!
You are very welcome.
Summer!!?? What’s that…it’s already beginning to feel like a long-distant memory! I love your glorious flowers and their vibrant colours…yeah, brilliant that the warmth and beauty of the flowers are still with you and thank you for sharing with us…I needed that on a particularly grey morning. I love the poem and had to smile at this line, just brilliant, ‘tossing petal smirks’!! Hope they carry on with those for a while longer for you, Lana. 😀
I am sure gonna miss them when they are gone, Annika. I am thinking we may have a mild winter, but sooner or later, my colorful little friends will be gone. Thank you! 😀
good evening Lana. Lovely poem – we all want summer to stay forever. Your garden is very pretty. And oooh I love the music, but “summer of 69” is one of my favorite song – and in “summer of 69” I was nowhere to be found on this planet earth, I was still far away hahaha! Nerver mind, I am here now lol!
Oh Juli, you are too funny! Yes you are here now, and so am I, and we both like that song. You know, there are quite a few great summer songs, it is hard to pick just one. Yeah, people love their summers for sure. My garden just now is showing the effects of the cooler mornings and it won’t be long until a killing frost comes, but I think that it is okay now because I’m a little tired of watering them, LOL.
ooh bless you Lana! You have had the time to see them growing and blooming. They are all so pretty! They will come back again next summer, don’t worry too much about them! Have a wonderful week!
So beautiful Lana. I loved how you blended the want of keeping summer alive within and the flowers too, hanging in against what’s coming. 🙂 x
Thanks so much, Debby. I am definitely a summer fan, but of course, all seasons do have their purpose. The flowers haven’t been as exuberant this week, I think they know it is time. We have been close to freezing, but still, not quite, we will get there, though. xo
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Such beautiful flowers, Lana! Thanks very much for sharing them with us! I’ve only got some Bougainvillae left but need to take it inside before the first frost.
I love my flowers. It is tough caring for them here during our dry spring weather (sometimes, anyway) and our brutal, hot summers. If I can manage to stick to watering and clipping, then it pays off in the fall when things cool down. Bougainvillae is beautiful!
You obviously did a great job at caring for them this year! 😄🌷🌸🌹🌺