Taking the PPC4 - 52 Weeks of Poetry

Prompt 3 (14th August 2023)

Summer Suggested

The summer suggested
by the still blue waters
warmed by a weary sun
stretched across the long hours

The lighthouse unlit, unnecessary
perhaps at this particular point
though pretty,
perched as it is on the peninsular

lending the scene a lovely
nautical air that demands
a picture, or perhaps a poem
holiday snapshot from the edge

because we could walk no further
Probably unmanned
so many are these days
or replaced by some even more remote machine

Yet here it stands, guardian
a creature of dark nights and storms
silent and sentinel
its very presence warns of

the treacherous rocks
submerged below the sparkling surface
marks a perimeter, completes a perfect picture
that suggests summer.