Sonnet

Summer Solstice Sonnet

We celebrate the sun
The year's longest day
We like to have fun
Drink cold chardonnay

In the southern hemisphere
For the bright sun they yearn
Wish they could be here
They await the sun's return

The longest day of the year
Draws very near
So let's pour that wine
And have a good time

Rick Wagner, June 2016

Atoms Dancing in the Sun

Atoms Dancing in the Sun

A window cracked by gravity
A sliver of reality
And atoms dancing in the sun
Like all and each and everyone
Though I have heard it better said
Than I today the way I do
I like to say it so instead
And so I say it now to you

I see clearer in the mirror
Of a crack in a window here
Than some ever will though nearer
As they peer through their bars of fear
Hopeful eyes see more openly
By love they live to see to be
The best they can nor mind the rest
Having been hopeless wept depressed

To open and to see hope through
When the only way out is in
As the lonely know to be true
Any of many like me too
When we get in then we begin
To see through ourselves like I do
What we are about inside out
Questioning the answer of doubt

Answering unquestionably
Seeing us being as we are
Having evolved but not too far
To see we need each other to
Be alongside for the ride who
Can see us being me and you
And all and each and everyone
Like atoms dancing in the sun

I like to be and like to see
Us being us seeing us free

Steven Curtis Lance

William Shakespeare.