The Summer Is a Desert Between Mountains

August 2, 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 love poem about a summer separation.

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Yours,

Nick Gordon

The summer is a desert between mountains

Lavish with the joys of spring and fall.

I look across that bleak and lonely wasteland,

Seeing no redemption there at all.

I cannot think how I will cross without you

To reach the golden hillsides of my dreams.

I try not to imagine how I'll miss you,

And not to look too hard at what that means.

Time, the enemy of helpless lovers,

Must compensate at last those it bereaves.

I cannot wait until, once more together,

We can share the blaze of turning leaves.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Summer

July 31: Summer2

August 1: August

August 2: The Summer Is a Desert Between Mountains