WILDflowers of Summer - A PHOTO Posting

WILDflowers of SUMMER

 

TODAY'S posting was INSPIRED by the following BLOG Posts:

•  Patricia McGoldrick's PM27'BLOG - Gardens Are Summer Delight
• TNKERR - Photo Challenge - Summer Lovin'

 

LINKS to other flower-related POSTINGS of MINE:

• Pink Lady Slipper Orchid
• All Gone
• Poly Nation
• PHOTO Posting: Flowers for Mothers Day

LINKS to OTHER sites that contain WILDflower info:

• Wildflower Identification
• Connecticut Botanical Society - Gallery of CT Wildflowers
• Go Botany (NE Wildflower Society)

Boys of Summer

photo by PSC / 2014

Boys of Summer

Long, loose, lank,

devil-may-care, they’re

conceived in starlight

and moon glow,

birthed by water,

fostered in the wind,

untamed, unsettled, unbroken.

It’s summertime, and clocks

can’t confine them.

They rise when they desire,

dress in swim trunks, sun-browned skin,

 spend days carelessly,

punctuated by sunshine;

pitching the present

like pennies against a wall,

unconcerned at their forfeiture.

September’s so very far away

under a July firefly sky.

They’re just playing 

with matches, 

still unaware

how fires are started.

PSC / 2014

Nature’s Fireworks (a shadorma*)

Nature’s Fireworks (a shadorma*)

  

Hot, humid,

glorious summer!

Clouds rumble!

Heavens blaze!

Mother Nature’s own light show

thunders in the sky.

PSC/July 4th 2014

 Happy   4th  of  July! 

* The Shadorma is a poetic form consisting of a six-line stanza (or sestet).  Each stanza has a syllable count as follows: (3/5/3/3/7/5)  three syllables in the first line, five syllables in the second line, three syllables in the third and fourth lines, seven syllables in the fifth line, and five syllables in the sixth line for a total of 26 syllables. A poem may consist of one stanza, or an unlimited number of stanzas (a series of shadormas).

p.s.  Apologies for the lengthy video (2:45).  I still haven't figured out how to edit & shrink it to create a video that Blogger will recognize.  :-(