#summer poems

[uwmspeccoll]

Summer Solstice 2023

Today, June 21, 2023, is the Summer Solstice, which marks the day of the year when the sun stays in the sky the longest. While this also means that from here on out the days will be getting shorter, let's put that at the back of our minds and instead celebrate the official beginning of summer and the long sunny days we still have left before Fall.

This year, I have chosen to post several summer-related poems by American poet, editor, scholar, professor, and activist Anne Waldman (1945-). These poems are from her book Sun The Blond Out, published in an edition of 900 copies by Arif Press in September 1975. The poems all have strong summer vibes, with the final one shown here mentioning the solstice directly. It reads:

& do what I know best actually, and weeping do nothing best but love you best the birds like flutes winding down & see these things for you your face the wind makes more light rain le dolce rime d'amor how careful I was but now against that time I write these things for you your leg around my river body walk thru the night, move your legs I move my legs & the stars at solstice you laugh

May we all "followe thy faire sunne" as the epigraph suggests, and enjoy the sunny days of summer now that they've officially arrived!

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

#summer solstice #Anne Waldman #poetry #poems #poets #summer poems #summer #sun #sunny days #longest day of the year #Arif Press #1970s #Sun the Blond Out

[stillgrowingwildflowers]

through cliffs and stones and buried bones I am growing into marigolds

-where she grows / the lovers -

#growth quotes #growing #summer quotes #spring quotes #summer poems #flower poems #wildflower quotes #flower quotes

[frogwaltzes]

on summer sickness.

(original poetry by me!!!)

#ocpoetry #on summer #summer sickness #original poetry #poems #poets on tumblr #poetry #summer poems #summer writing #writing #writing community #writers on tumblr #web weaving #dog days of summer #summer words #quotes #quote compilation #summer quotes #quotes about summer #poems by julia #poem by me #written by me #this one made me so happy to write #i'm actually quite proud of it!

[technicallycarbon]

Wasn't it the Summer Rains, Hot and Sticky at it's worst, Cooling and cleansing at it's best, Drink, Soak, Washing away old.

Wasn't easier then, Summer felt free, Summer meant adventure, Slow, Lazy, Time for a new day.

#my poetry #original poetry #original poems #infinity poems #my edit #my gif #poetry community #freeform #poems and poetry #poems and words #poems on tumblr #summer poems #summer rain #rain poems #poets on tumblr

[nudeartpluspoetry]

"Moonlight--Summer Moonlight," by Emily Brontë

#emily brontë #poems #bronte poems #romanticism #moonlight #summer poems #poetry out loud

[metamorphesque]

— Mary Oliver, The Pond

#quotes #literature #poetry #poems #mary oliver #august #summer

[crowthegeode]

For an evening the earth feasted

Warmly celebrating a green spring

Dance lightly my child

And like this spirit

Rain will not leave you

#summer poems #my poetry #magnet poetry #candlelight musings

[diverscaple]

#blue bra #summer girl #fishnecklace #kate edison #list #metal chick #txt #elliethumann #queer poems #huji film

[havingapoemwithyou]

the sun by Mary Oliver

#Mary Oliver #poetry #poem #summer

[itsthislake]

“The Summer Day” by Mary Oliver.

HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY ACE!!

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#happy birthday ace! #portgas d ace #fire fist ace #monkey d luffy #one piece sabo #sabo is here in spirit for the most part #one piece #one piece comic #op fanart #lake's art #something something the duty of an older brother #man i almost got this done in time lmao #i love Mary Oliver's poems so much you've no idea #the summer day is like my third favorite poem ever i think #i finally learned how to draw fire for this lol #love the cowboy hat. hate to draw the cowboy hat #do not repost #lmao i just noticed i put the wrong number in the bounty. it's supposed to be 30.000.000 not 300.000.000

[geryone]

I Could Die Today and Live Again, Summer Farah

#quotes #poetry #quote #poem #Summer Farah #id in alt text #preordered this collection and it came in today!!! so excited about it

[fandom-trash-goblin]

And at last can grant a name To a buried and a burning flame As love and its decisive pain Oh, my sunlight, sunlight, sunlight

— of sunlight, and your hand in mine.

#webweaving #webweave #poetry #aesthetic #quotes #spilled ink #poems and poetry #poems and quotes #writing #poem #spilled poetry #words #spilled thoughts #dark academia #web weaving #*mine: graphics #on sunlight #its march! it's summer!!! #hozier #sunlight #hozier sunlight #lyrics #lyric parallels #wasteland baby #hozier lyrics

[ghostboywritespoetry]

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Summer

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Summers night

street lights leading the way

hushed laughter

in through my mouth out through my nose

stumbling together

thunderous laughter

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Wrote this while on vacation I think it’s pretty obvious what it’s abt.

#summer poetry #poems #writers on tumblr #writer #poetry #summer poems #summer #summer writing

[metamorphesque]

musings on the sun

christina perneta, noor hindi, vincent van gogh, jeanette winterson, zinaida vysota docenko, anne sexton, olga kos, khalil gibran

#web weavings #sun #paralells #art parallels #art #literature #quotes #poems #poetry #khalil gibran #noor hindi #anne sexton #translated literature #classic literature #jeanette winterson #vincent van gogh #paintings #yellow #hope #summer

[lettersbycandlelight]

#august #hello august #literature #literature lover #book aesthetic #light acadamia aesthetic #light academia #summer quotes #book quotes #quotes and poems #quotes and sayings #written word #change is coming #manifesting #affirmations #positive affirmations #positive quotes #positivity #light academia quotes #booklr #writers and poets #poets corner #book lover #poetic #words

[vodkatales]

How can we be allowed to feel so much for people who don't feel anything for us?

#winona ryder #movie quotes #spilled words #words #sad girl summer #excerpt from a book i'll never write #writing #poets on tumblr #dark academia #writerscommunity #love poem #heartbreak #literature #books & libraries #aesthetic #poetry #depressing quotes #toxic love #fragments of journal #texts from my ex #existential musings #random thoughts #mini rant #2 am posts #i wrote this at 2am #i still love you #relationships #long time no update #painful #mental health