Not your Typical Summer

 

A refreshing Watermelon & Plum Fruit Chiller.  

5 hours of sleep is not recommended. My keyboard suddenly died last night too. The weather was perfect today - so perfect i don't know whether to be appreciative or suspicious. Ha. Anyway look at this poem i found. 

Song for a Birth or a Death

Last night I saw the savage world

And heard the blood beat up the stair;

The fox’s bark, the owl’s shrewd pounce,

The crying creatures – all were there,

And men in bed with love and fear.

The slit moon only emphasised

How blood must flow and teeth must grip.

What does the calm light understand,

The light which draws the tide and ship

And drags the owl upon its prey

And human creatures lip to lip?

Last night I watched how pleasure must

Leap from disaster with its will:

The fox’s fear, the watch-dog’s lust

Know that all matings mean a kill:

And human creatures kissed in trust

Feel the blood throb to death until

The seed is struck, the pleasure’s done,

The birds are thronging in the air;

The moon gives way to widespread sun.

Yes but the pain still crouches where

The young fox and the child are trapped

And cries of love are cries of fear.

- Elizabeth Jennings

  

So what do you think?