Shawn L. Bird

12 Responses to “summer comes”

1. beckarooney Says:

   June 9, 2013 at 1:23 pm

   This is so carefree and beautifully written, I love the first stanza – it drew me in straight away. 🙂 x

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   • Shawn Bird Says:

     June 9, 2013 at 2:12 pm

     Thank you. I do try to pick evocative words, to cull out the extraneous, and to celebrate small moments in rich ways. Some times it works better than others!

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     • beckarooney Says:

       June 12, 2013 at 12:03 pm

       It’s a great technique, sometimes it pays to keep writes short and sweet 🙂 x
2. Geo Sans Says:

   June 9, 2013 at 10:12 pm

   Hmm

   ~

   smells like

   freedom

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   • Shawn Bird Says:

     June 9, 2013 at 10:39 pm

     For kids
     For teachers
     For those with summer houses, cabins, or cottages
     Not so much for moms who have lots more extra work! lol

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     • Jennifer Barricklow Says:

       June 10, 2013 at 8:28 am

       I echo your sentiments about the extra work! At the least the schedule is a bit more relaxed (hopefully). Happy summer!
3. Moniba Says:

   June 12, 2013 at 12:47 am

   Nice poetry 🙂
   Where I come from, we do not exactly think of summer in very good terms. It brings with it extreme heat and unbearable humidity, which is so exhausting! Not to mention the frequent load-shedding of electricity…
   It amuses me that people on the other side of the world welcome it with such joy… I suppose, sunshine must mean a lot to those who have winters most of the time.

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   • Shawn Bird Says:

     June 12, 2013 at 10:04 am

     “Winter most of the time.” Ha. I live in a place that has 4 very distinct seasons, each quite precisely marked by the calendar. Our winter is December to February, our spring March to May, our summer June to August, our autumn September to November. Since we are in the interior, we don’t have too much humidity, but we’re on the shore of a lake, so even if the summer temperatures reach 40C, it’s quite bearable. In winter, even if it drops to -30 (which is doesn’t often where we are) the cold doesn’t crawl into your bones.

     We travelled through Minneapolis once on our way to Europe, and were stunned by the wall of humidity that accosted us in that plastic tunnel from plane to terminal. We’d never experienced such a thing before! We do get some very impressive storms, and in recent years forest fires, but it’s a pretty wonderful place to live! I posted a picture from my living room window last month, if you scroll down fifty or sixty posts you might find it. 😉 (They are here: https://shawnbird.com/2013/04/27/liebster-award/ )

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     • Moniba Says:

       June 12, 2013 at 9:51 pm

       Well then I envy you 😉 Because here, spring and autumn aren’t very noticeable, winters are slight, summers are extreeeeme! We do get sea air, because we have the Arabian sea, but the humidity it brings rules everything else out.
       I like the view from your window! Beautiful place.
     • Shawn Bird Says:

       June 12, 2013 at 9:58 pm

       Winter is -10 to 0C, often overcast right here, usually 15 to 50 cm of snow, crisp and cold. Spring is 5 to 15C, with blossoms on the trees. Summer is from 15-40C usually 20-25 for several weeks. Autumn is 10 to 0C and the trees take turns changing to golden or scarlet from September to November. Nothing extreme at all. 😉
     • Moniba Says:

       June 12, 2013 at 10:00 pm

       Nothing extreme, and that’s the way it should be. must be very pleasant…
       Right now, we have 40C temperature. Humidity off the charts.
     • Shawn Bird Says:

       June 12, 2013 at 10:33 pm

       My condolences! 😉