What is your favorite season of year? Why?

My favourite season is Summer. When the sun is warm on my skin, the birds are singing, the sky is blue, and the flowers are in bloom, what could be better? It lifts my mood, makes my heart sing and my emotions soar.

What better way to describe it than a 19th century poem by John Clare?

I love to see the summer beaming forth
And white wool sack clouds sailing to the north
I love to see the wild flowers come again
And mare blobs stain with gold the meadow drain
And water lilies whiten on the floods
Where reed clumps rustle like a wind shook wood
Where from her hiding place the Moor Hen pushes
And seeks her flag nest floating in bull rushes
I like the willow leaning half way o’er
The clear deep lake to stand upon its shore
I love the hay grass when the flower head swings
To summer winds and insects happy wings
That sport about the meadow the bright day
And see bright beetles in the clear lake play.

Bull rushes and heron over a clear lake by Paul Carney
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3 responses to “Birds are singing over the bull rushes”

  1. safia begum Avatar

    What a radiant tribute to summer—both in your words and Clare’s verse! ☀️🌼 The warmth, the blooms, the joyful hum of nature… Truly a season that sings to the soul. 💛🦋🌿 #SummerSerenity

    1. Paul Carney Avatar

      Why thank you me dear. I do think it’s the most joyful season. Have a lovely day

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