Weekly Poetry & Visuals: No 9

Long Summer Nights

The heatwave continues. This last week was filled with playing outdoors, regular workouts (a reset was much needed), and making good progress on my creative project (top secret). I was consciously more present and slower, trying to avoid multitasking and unnecessary stress. I’m sharing two poems about those glorious, long summer nights. Side note: trying to learn from the closing scenes of one of my favourite films, About Time (highly recommend it).

School Holidays

The weight of those summer days,
while kids are still small and needy,
makes my eyes heavy early in the evenings.
Tired from being fully present,
my heart feels bursting with love,
remembering that everything will pass.

Peaceful 

We started to spend 
our evenings outside,
away from the noise
and house chores.
Sitting on the bench,
playing cards and chatting
until the sun comes down
and the air gets chilly.
I can get used to this,
hoping that we’ll never 
start taking each other
for granted.
 
DEE STOPPA