These Texas Summer Nights (Poetry)
We lie outside and listen
To these Texas summer nights.
Hand in hand our hearts wander
To the red and gold of fading lights.
Crickets chirp their mating calls
Orchestrating the music of the heat.
Caterpillar weeds shake their heads
And wild daisies dance to the beat.
A streetlight buzzes in the dusk, and
When a warm breeze whips humid air
And mosquitoes across our cheeks,
We still lie there.
His hand creeps towards my heart,
And the scent of the blanket molds
With the fragrance of summer grass
And the wildflowers he holds.
His lips are warm and wet on mine
Like the humid air done right.
And we lie outside and listen
To these Texas summer nights.
2 comments
This is so beautiful and peaceful, I could feel myself relaxing as I read. I especially love how you end vs3 with such a short line, because it brings the meaning all the more home. Powerful. (also how you repeat the second line of vs1 as the last line of the poem is AMAZING! :D)
ReplyDeleteI have missed your poetry. Don't stop writing. :)
Thank you so much for the kind response. :) I counted, and apparently it has been five months since "Reconciliation," my last poem. xD
DeleteI realized how much I missed writing poetry! XD