ROSE-TINTED BEE ON SUMMER JASMINE TREE

"Summer breeze makes me feel fine. Blowin' through the Jasmine in my mind.”

 

- George Benson

 

Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO_LcE9c57Q

SUMMER NIGHTS – MARIANNE FAITHFULL

 

Summer Jasmine smells heavenly

it's rose-pink array of flowers

attracts the bees and keeps them busy

they buzz and play for hours and hours

I listen intently to their soothing hum

they drone away; make me feel drowsy

I dream of sweet and pleasant things

and wake to find the sky is cloudy

like old-fashioned English lemonade

and sea mist that rolls unbidden

up into the garden and across the lawns

it's secrets carefully hidden

I dangle a hand and stroke the grass

and camomile lawns so fresh and sweet

a hazy, lazy day filled with daisies

buttercups and meadowsweet

marsh orchids settle now and then

but rarely in the same place twice

and little snow white wood anenomes

hide beneath the tamerisk covered in wood lice

I open one eye and shield it from the sky

with the other free hand like a sailor

who dances and skips in a Hornpipe twist

and shouts “land ahoy” like a Jack Tar

a foghorn sounds to an approaching ship

and the lighthouse lights up early

the seagulls cry out their mournful song

their wings glistening white and pearly

the sun begins it's slow descent

to warm a far-off and distant land

and looking down now, both eyes open

I see a ladybird tickling my hand

I set her down gently on the Summer Jasmine

the bees are tiring and slowing

they fly away to make their honey

as the chill of the night air flowing

sweeps in and swirls around my ankles

amid the mists of time

and I am left relaxed; replete

rejuvenated by this perfect day of mine.

 

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This image is a compilation of 2 of my photographs, 1 of which was the rose-tint.

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