August

August 1, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is summer.

Today’s poem is a calendar poem for August about how amid its beauty there are hints of coming darkness.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

August starts to shade a bit towards shade,

Upon the cusp of full tide and retreat,

Grace, poised upon a turning point of time,

Unwilling to welcome what it can’t decline,

Sweet season no foreboding can defeat.

Though evenings earlier begin to fade.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/august.html. For more calendar poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/calendarpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Summer

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August 1: August