So long you’ve been gone
It seems like just yesterday
When will my heart heal?
Oh how I wish you were here
To be together again
So long you’ve been gone
It seems like just yesterday
When will my heart heal?
Oh how I wish you were here
To be together again
Summer Garden
If on a sunny summer’s day
I walked along a rambling way
Through trees and fields of new mown hay
What profit would it bring me?
Or if in autumn I did ride
Upon a boat washed by the tide
To find a place where I could hide
What pleasure would it give me?
Perhaps in winter I could run
And slide with children having fun
Or throw a snowball at someone
What lessons would it teach me?
If in the spring I watched the trees
Or saw the way a sparrow sees
The spiders and the humming bees
What happiness would greet me?
In summer, autumn, winter, spring
Whatever weather they would bring
If I could give to you a ring
What wond’rous love would fill me.
Lovely spring garden
Beautiful yellow flowers
All dandelions!
Scent of summer honeysuckle
Mixed with early morning dew
Stimulating all my senses
Cannot e’er compete with you
Walk with me in moonlight’s splendour
Where the honeysuckle grows
Watch the sunrise o’er the mountain
Bathing all in tender glow
Let us listen to the chorus
Of the morning birds in song
Singing out of love’s contentment
Oh may our love last that long
And, as all the world is stirring
Let us simply slip away
To our restful, peaceful garden
Till the morning turns to day
Oh, my love, may you feel comfort
In my arms may you find bliss
Sleep, awhile, in summer’s dawning
There to dream of love’s first kiss
Dandelion seeds
Falling on sunflower heads
In brilliant sunshine
Fresh-faced sun bather
Turns to cook the other side
Sore back and shoulders
Should have used stronger sun cream
Learn the lesson for next time!
© 2014 Harcourt 51