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Gather her sunshine,
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One good turn deserves another, Mr. Richard (Night Owl) ! Whenever you read a new poet for the first time, you can't miss by visiting the poem listed as the best Poem Of... Enjoyed your 'Summer Time' immensely!
Hmm, I like that, wish I'd have written it myself.....have written lots of poems about the seasons though
I agree, summer seems to be all too short. In New Zealand it is a long hot summer at the moment, which I like a lot and it's when I feel fully alive. Good use of personification in your last 2 lines, ' Before Autumn's foot soldiers'.