Snowflakes of Summer

Snowflakes of Summer by Shundra L. Moore
is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.


Keys that chime in the morning time

Starting a new day over again

Mercies new with the sunrise

And anger to fade with the upside down smile of the sunset.

Looking forward to court the days of summer

And shun the short winter nights.



If we could capture the essence

Of the rain soaked rays,

Bottle them up and throw them over our shoulders

These wishes of the sun.

What bit of luck would come our way.



Ra is long ago gone

But he tries to make an entrance.

Through men who seek a confined summer that can save him

From a cold winters night.



Children play until the dusk dark day

And long to find another hour to sit

In the mud pies and hula hoops

That still call out their names.



Crystals of winter all disappear

When the temperature decides to go up into a higher plane.

A captured memory of summer

Is as a snowflake

Unique as a thought that turns

With the wheel of a kind word,

And the prayers of a child.