It Was A Hot Sunny Day (English Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

It was a hot and clear open sunny summer day,
as if sent from up high from beyond earthly skies
on your face a ray like a token from heaven lay,
as if we were both like Adam and Eve in paradise,

where we stood in the pine filled fragrant wood,
with a lingering tranquillity a kind of silence there,
a lonely woodpecker pecked among needles at its food,
two doves fluttered down cooed as if love was everywhere,

in the distance the ocean did glow with a serene blue
as if forever everything was unperturbed calm in the deep,
while right there our love was true and beautiful were you
and it felt as if into eternity our sacred vows we would keep,

where yet now separate from each other apart we are
and the distance between the two us is so very far.

© Gert Strydom