One summer day
\nby cricketjeff on August 25, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nThere were poppies in the meadow and a haze of cornflower blue,
\nBut I only saw the laughter in your eyes.
\nIn that summer land of sunshine, when my love for you was new,
\nAnd we danced beneath the rainbows in the skies.
\nThere were skylarks singing love songs and a frog-filled shady pool,
\nWhen the sun shone like a spotlight on a lady and her fool.<\/p>\n
There were sunlight dappled shadows under trees of apple green,
\nAs we sat and watched the river run and play.
\nQuite invisible to others as we waltzed where gods had been
\nAnd we kissed the summer afternoon away.
\nThere were mallards busy dabbling and lilies standing tall,
\nAs I held you ever closer and I promised you it all.<\/p>\n
There were breezes bouncing wheat-ears in a field of liquid sun
\nAnd your fingers intertwined between my own.
\nWe walked slowly by the hedgerows, where the rabbits watched the fun,
\nAnd a pheasant used a gatepost for his throne.
\nThough I hardly saw the beauty that was nature all around,
\nWhen we fell into each other on a soft green patch of ground.<\/p>\n
When the sky turned peach and amber and the sun was burning gold,
\nWe were unaware of all the rest of life,
\nAnd the day once young and tender grew so dignified and old,
\nI was brave enough to ask you “be my wife”.
\nNow there’ll never be another day as beautiful to me,
\nBut each day we spend together fills my heart with poetry.<\/p>\n
Author notes
\nI often wish I was the I in my poems!!!<\/p>\n
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