Still 4

 

Summer ripens into August,

spawning heat, haze, and humidity;

the air so still,

not a leaf moves.

The surface of the lake

so smooth, so still;

lily pads are glossy green plates.

A table setting on calm water.

I'm still waiting

for the next

rigorous thunderstorm

to arouse the atmosphere.

© 2022 Richard Havenga

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"Still 3" ~ December 16, 2021

"Still 2" ~ April 29, 2019

"Still" ~ September 12, 2016

Photo Locations:

1. McCarthy Lake - Kent County - Michigan

2. Ludington State Park - beach - Ludington, Michigan

Summer Poem

 

Vibrant poppies of scarlet orange

burst out of their capsules

ready to smooth out

their soft wrinkles.

Honey Locusts display their

curled clusters of white flasks

to perfume this June afternoon.

Deep green lily pads

carpet the lake shallows.

Thick and glossy;

floating solar collectors.

Pastel stalks of wheat;

feathered and filigreed,

reach for the summery sun.

Is now the time

to open the door

and look for your own

summer poem?

© 2021 Richard Havenga

Photo Locations:

1. Home Garden - Cannonsburg, Michigan

2. Grattan Township - Kent County - Michigan

3. Pickerel Lake Park ~ Fred Meijer Nature Preserve - Kent County - Michigan

4. Home Fields - Grattan Township - Kent County - Michigan

5. Vergennes Township - Kent County - Michigan

Van Gogh

" Perhaps I shall begin to look about for greens." 

~ Vincent Van Gogh (to his brother Theo)

from: letters edited by Irving Stone (1873-1890)

book: Dear Theo - © 1937 by Irving Stone



Photo Locations:

1. Wabasis Lake Park - Kent County, Michigan

2. & 4. Pickerel Lake Park - Kent County, Michigan

3. Gunnison, Colorado