Archive for June, 2010
Literary Mileage
Summer Song
Monday, June 14th, 2010
Summer Song (With thanks to William Carlos Williams for this week’s blog title.)
Summer is my favorite season. I seem to write the same poem every year, trying to capture the colors, scents, sounds, and scenes of June, July and August. The buzz of cicadas, the joy of the mockingbird who is teasing my cats, fresh early morning air, astonishing shades of green in the park, lightning bugs…
Here’s how the poet, John Keats, describes it:
On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
The poetry of earth is never dead:
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;
That is the Grasshopper’s—he takes the lead
In summer luxury,—he has never done
With his delights; for when tired out with fun
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
The poetry of earth is ceasing never:
The Cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever,
And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,
The Grasshopper’s among some grassy hills.
William Carlos Williams is a bit more whimsical about summer…
Summer Song
Wanderer moon
smiling a
faintly ironical smile
at this
brilliant, dew-moistened
summer morning,–
a detached
sleepily indifferent
smile, a
wanderer’s smile,—
if I should
buy a shirt
your color and
put on a necktie
sky-blue
where would they carry me?
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