More summer poems and quotes:
“Under the summer sun,
thirty birds feeding
on figs.
Young tree branches
sagging so low –
ripe peaches.
Still in the shade,
on wet soil,
a black dragonfly.
An old mind
surprised by seeing
a purple fairy at sunset,
dancing to the crickets’ tunes,
leaping as guinea hens screech,
wary of the bats,
hovering to say,
“Lugh’s Day, Lugh’s Day.”
Crackling fires
glowing
under the full moon.
Peace in the Valley.”
– Michael Garofalo, Lugh’s Day
Jen Betton – Summer Night
“One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.”
– Rachel Carson
“There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.”
– Celia Thaxter
“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”
– Sam Keen
Scattered Showers in a Clear Sky 