Blog Intermission no. 2 (entr’acte) - A Summer Song

Below is a lovely poem I read a couple of weeks ago. It is in a book called “Wings of Song” – a collection of poems by Phyllis Sparta, published in 1983. There is little information on this poet. Born and raised in Florida, she graduated from the University of Puerto Rico. Phyllis received many awards for her work. Trilingual, she has traveled widely. Phyllis Sparta is the founding member of the National league of American Pen Women, St Augustine, Florida.

Reading, Melinda Byers, American, Contemporary

Summer Song

As you tour the sun-scorched highway
Underneath a summer sky,

Traffic in Atlanta, Georgia (Photograph from the Web, unknown author)

Has some green, enchanting byway
Ever lured your restless eye?

Photograph taken outside of Plains, Georgia

Have you longed to leave the traffic;
Felt a yearning there and then

Atlanta traffic at night (Photograph from the Web, unknown author)

To explore the leafy shadows
Of some cool tree-shaded glen?

Photo taken in Asheville, North Carolina, summer 2009

Have you thrilled to sunlit waters
As they shimmer in the light?

Oconaluftee River in Cherokee, North Carolina , July 2009

Has a sudden field of flowers
Filled your heart with pure delight?

Fields taken in the Biltmore Estate, Asheville NC, summer 2009

As you hustle on your journey
To some drear appointed goal,
Has the beauty of a landscape
Ever charmed your harried soul?

Nature’s Gardens, Vintage Tuck’s Postcard

If the simple arts of Nature
Thus can make your spirits sing –

Photo taken near Americus, Georgia, August 2009

Though your years may be of Winter;
Still your heart belongs to Spring!

- Phyllis Sparta, American Contemporary

Painting Victor Vignon, French, 1847-1909

Picture at the very top was taken at Jimmy Carter’s boyhood farm in Plains, Georgia, August 2009


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