A luxurious breeze

 A luxurious breeze


A luxurious breeze is wafting

Into the lap of the afternoon

The wind through the trees

Whistling and dancing with the leaves. 


A waltz that embraced and spun

Through shafts of light to the sun 

Delicate greens that shimmied and shone

Like Eden on the day the world begun. 


Lifting our spirits - raising our souls

As our gaze descends to the sea below

August brings a harvest of joy and balm

The earth restored, the heavens calm. 


We shall enjoy this day of bliss

We shall return Nature’s kiss

This ordinary day like any other 

But full of magic and of wonder. 


Happy dogs their tails agog

Happy couples hand in hand 

Smiling at each other and the world

Old men on benches watch the noon unfold. 


Bray beckons with a sweep of Bay

Above the town the pointed Head

The top rewarded with a cross

In the distance the Sugar Loaf. 


Warm airs arising from a sea

Spent by storms now blue and green

The happy cries of swimmers float 

Above the thrum of pleasure boats. 


Killiney Hill 21/8/23 

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