Balmy days
bound in Arcadia's summer; lightly whispered
secrets, drifting beside forgotten pathways
sheltered in the umbra of nooks and hedgerows,
breathlessly confide
Stolen dreams
awaken sultry mornings where love erupts
from ripened seed to bloom, eliciting
a fondness and a fawning that summer's end
is fated to consume
Timeless moments
captured for eternity within ring-
binders of the living trees, Arcadia's
old sentinels take pity on lovers
lorn of keepsake memories
Summer fades
yet ever in Arcadia, summer shields
the land from autumn gloom and lovers lorn
will ever have a place here, where summer
keeps a vigil on their tomb
First published 28th January 2015, 19:00 AEST.