[10 out of 20] Original: Last Days of Summer

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Title: Last Days of Summer
Fandom: Original
Rating: Gen
Length: 100
Prompt: doubt
Notes: Italian sonnet



the days of summer dwindle yet I doubt
the arrival of autumn. summer’s grip
seems unyielding, unending. fat bees sip
as they have always sipped. nothing will rout
this heat, oppressive lash, slow blow, about
the shoulders, the brow, a dull-studded whip
which beats on and on and which seeks to rip
desire to do from one and all. I doubt

that anything will ever change, and yet—
there. maybe. a flicker of sensation
a respite, faintest slackening of hold,
I might just be persuaded to forget
it as figment of imagination,
if not for the ring of season untolled

Comments

[adore]

this is beautiful.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!