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Cool down and refresh your mind, body and spirit with these poems about summer.
“From the Sustaining Air” by Larry Eigner
For a poem that feels like a fresh breath of air, read this poem about clarity, the “billows of August” and the brilliance of summer. This poem feels like listening to your favorite summer songs with a cold lemonade in the sun. The end provides a twist that you might not expect.
Allow this poem to take you on a summer adventure.
“First Blues” by Saundra Rose Maley
This poem will remind you of youth and what it feels like to come alive in the midst of a simple summer. The perfect setting of a summer night mingled with blues music provides a subtle and serene poem to enjoy on a perfectly warm evening.
“Fireflies” by Frank Ormsby
In this poem, author Frank Ormsby investigates the life and nature of a firefly through both despondent and hopeful diction. Loneliness and deprivation are met with memory and light in this poem of animals and the natural world.
“Late Summer” by Jennifer Grotz
Moths covering a street lamp while taking in the hazy, long days of the summer on a small town street. Sunglasses, bees, daylight, twigs, pigeons. For a poem that can remind you of childhood and growing up in a small town, read this nostalgic poem.
“Long Island Sound” by Emma Lazarus
In Emma Lazarus’s “Long Island Sound,” readers journey through an imaginative, warm August day with a breeze billowing in and the lush rolling of the sea and the grass. To enter into a dreamlike narrative, check out this poem.
“Back Yard” by Carl Sandburg
The summer moon shines brightly through this poem full of togetherness, love, song and nature. Author Carl Sandburg paints a picture of a serene night full of “back porch drinking” in the everlasting, ever-present summer.
