Dear August

 Dear August

Dear August don’t leave us

Hardly we’ve seen you

Rest here a while  longer

To bookend the summer. 

It’s seems only moments

Since young June had arrived

Breathless and panting

With news of long evenings. 

As for July, it came and it went

In the blink of an eye 

Summer currency spent

To the sound of laughter and cries

Carried up on the sea wind

From down on the beach

The hymns of young children

As they run and they swim. 

This sunshine will spill

Into September at least

Prolonging the joy

Extending the feast. 

It’s good to hear children

And dogs as they bark

Enjoy running on sand

Playing til dark. 

On let it run

On let it roll

Til the sky paints it pink 

And the long evening tolls. 

Then exhausted they run

With wet sandy feet

Into the mobiles

For something to eat. 

These days will pass soon

But the memories long last

On every horizon 

A flag and a mast.