Hot Summer Daze
The droplets formed, dangling, on leafy edge
sweet flowers gazed in lusty, wanton need
warm lingering hopes of summer’s promise
awakening the lips of future seed
Torturously tantalizing foreplay
sun gleaming in a perfect union’s eyes
swaying on the brink of love’s disaster
clinging to summer moments as time flies
But, with summer love, come shadows creeping
a darkness that will taint the untried heart
leave the leaf and slowly wilting petals
the agony of knowing they must part.
Love’s hearts have hardened some but still recall
a summer heat that bid those droplets fall.
©5/8/2018
submitted to – Summer love sonnet – Poetry Contest
sponsor – John Hamilton
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