Longer Days - poetry

Our poetry theme this month is Longer Days, pretty appropriate considering it is summer time and exactly that, longer days.

Longer Days
Summer time oh sweet summer time
how I have missed your sunshine

sun shining bright
no school in sight

oh how I've missed you summer time

early mornings
no laying around
sleepy head

chasing kites
fishing poles and worms
cars loaded for the beach
oh the sun burn

oh how I've missed you summer time

fireflys and hummingbirds
catfish and tadpoles
picnics and camping
s'mores by the dozen

late night movies
outside play until ten
running and jumping
then we get up and do it again

Longer Days
what a joy
but by summers end
we are tired and sore!

Stop by the others ↓↓↓↓↓↓↓

https://www.bakinginatornado.com/2019/06/longer-days-june-poetry.html
http://www.clutteredgenius.com/?p=10032
https://dlt-lifeontheranch.blogspot.com/2019/06/love-em-or-hate-em.html

Another Year Has Passed - anniversary poetry

Each month we choose a theme, this month is Anniversaries. 
This month is difficult for me as today would have been my Daddy's birthday. He passed in 2013 just six days before my birthday, seven days before my oldest son's birthday and thirteen days before Father's Day.
To say I miss him is an understatement.
He is better off, no more pain and sickness, which helps some. I don't think it ever goes away, you just find different ways of adjusting.

So with that...be sure to stop by the other participants and see what they have written.

Another Year Has Passed

Another year has passed
it could be happy or sad

Another year has passed
time to remember our past

Another year has passed
party time, let's celebrate

Another year has passed
come to together with family and friends

Another year has passed
life moves on and we grow

Another year has passed
it's a little easier to smile

Another year has passed
and we will celebrate

Karen of Baking In A Tornado https://www.bakinginatornado.com/2018/09/september-twelfth-anniversaries-poetry.html
Diane of On The Boarder https://dlt-lifeontheranch.blogspot.com/2018/09/times-twenty.html
Sarah of My Brand Of Crazy https://sarahsbrandcrazy.blogspot.com/2018/09/10-years-of-lifetime.html
Lydia of Cluttered Genius http://www.clutteredgenius.com/?p=9675

A Balm To My Soul

Hi and welcome. Today's post is participation in a group post. Each month we pick a them and then each blogger/writer chooses how they will interrupt that theme. Poetry is fluid, pictures in word form, free verse, prose or haiku, whatever you choose. It is an expression from ones inner most soul and I hope you enjoy each one of the verses given from all who took time to write for today's post. Our theme...National Relaxation Day - August 2018 Poetry collaboration post.

Sitting by the water
breathing in salt air
warm breeze stirs my hair

Standing on the edge
of concern and
giving in to woe

breathing in salt air
it gives balm
to my weary soul

a gentle breeze
sun kissed cheeks
birds in the wind

waves on the ocean
a boat floating by
dolphins playing carefree
all this by the seaside

I sit and soak it in
breathing in the salt air
until my worries are carried away
then I rise to face yet another day

Driving home
refreshed and renewed
my spirit can handle
another week or two

I took this photo at Shell Point near Harkers Island NC on November 30, 2015

Other participant links:
https://www.bakinginatornado.com/2018/08/if-you-insist-national-relaxation-day.html
http://www.clutteredgenius.com/?p=9654
https://dlt-lifeontheranch.blogspot.com/2018/08/its-official.html