Deep Summer

It is necessary that we in the Southern Hemisphere hold summer’s memories closely to our hearts, or we risk their loss –

those holiday summers,

lazing on the grass

or the sand –

as winter thickens around us,

we crave to keep

that leisurely haze.

A liwuli for FridayWritings #133 at Poets and Storytellers United, inspired by the quote: 'Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.' ~ Sam Keen. (I'm thinking I'll need to rewrite it at some point and take out the reference to Southern Hemisphere, which was just a response to getting a summer prompt in my winter – but what I say really applies whenever the seasons happen in one's own locality.)

Putting on the Rizz

'Rizz' is style, charm, attractiveness. I'll tell you how to glamour that – look just like Aidan Quinn in ‘Desperately Seeking Susan.’

Watched it again, since long.

Watched him.

Broody eyes, crooked smile …

Ah, that lean youth, how far now 

lost down time? And old I – 

from where such quickening?

Form: liwuli

I'm sharing this with Poets and `Storytellers United for Friday Writings #109, when Magaly invites us to write something which includes the word 'rizz' (the Oxford word of the year for 2023).