In This Hot Sunny Summer (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

I live unhindered in this hot sunny summer
with the mornings being so hot that they are humid,
and in the afternoons flashing blue-white light bashes down
while the sky leaks as if the rain wants to wash everything away,
all of the trees in the garden are full of different birds,
that do twitter, coo, tweet and chirp about the joys of life
and during this lovely time you are gardening with me,
we plant gazanias, our wild lilies bloom and arum lilies appear,
like Eve took Adam by the hand back there in Eden,
you lead me through our garden to the most tranquil spots
do show me the new flowers that do appear
and the sky is blue or its hue is grey or darker blue
while we both know that never there had been
a summer just as this.

[Poet's note: in the southern hemisphere of the earth the seasons are opposite to those in the northern hemisphere and December, January and February are the summer months.]

© Gert Strydom