SUMMER: It’s been a while since I posted any poems or words on my website. At the moment it is hot, hot, hot and my garden is flourishing with flowers, vegetables and the inevitable little insects that want a taste of it all! Here’s a poem to start us off about Aphids! Followed by a few more summer related words. Have a wonderful time, wherever you are!

APHIDS

Soft-bodied

Pear-shapers

Sap-suckers

Plant-zappers

Stem-lovers

Mould-stickers

Goo-makers

Crop-destroyers

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Ladybird-lunches

Sparrow-suppers

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Here’s one for the letter B

SUMMER B’s

Busy bumbling bees,

Beaming big blue sky.

Berries on the blackberry bush

Butterflies breezing by.

Balmy, bright and beautiful.

Birds and babbling brooks.

Bats and balls and barbecues.

Beaches, bathing and books!

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THAT IS SUMMER

when the air sings

with the swoop of swallows.

With the whoop of kids

at the end of term. 

When the sky beams

in endless blue and gold

and the fields bloom

with grass and wild flowers

where bees and butterflies

dance from plant to plant.

When the world is a splash

and shrieks in pools and seas,

and the tap-tap 

of bat and ball across

the sand and land.

When the air smells 

of barbecues and fire-pits

and late night chatter 

in back gardens. 

The dash of swifts 

high among the clouds

and swarms of passengers

in soaring planes.

When parks echo

with picnics and playtime,

and the pavements click

to the footsteps of tourists.

When the streets smell 

and swell with queues for food,

and all the world is walking 

and talking and smiling.

That is summer.