August is a Healing Month

  August is a Healing Month

August is the time when most people have a holiday from work, whether it's a staycation or travelling to see your family. For many people it's the only time thay can all be together. I wish you all a happy August and may it heal and regenerate and lay down the foundation for a happy family life.

Gaze up at the August sky

With sunshine on your face

You feel its gentle kisses

And your heart begins to race.

Memories will come flooding back

Pine trees spread their scent

Rosemary, thyme and lavender

Citrus and creme de menthe.

Martini, ice and lemonade,

Gin tonic, vin Rose

Treasure all your memories

Don't let them slide away.

Sunsine on your shoulder

Sand between your toes

where our memories go to

Noone really knows.

Buckets, spades and lilos

Are all you really need

To keep young children happy

With love to sow the seed

 

Of a happy joyous childhood

Under the August sky

Treasure every moment

Time keeps slipping by.

 

School reports and problems

Are left behind at home

A chance to heal for families

Frollicking in the foam.

 

Playing cards and laughing

squashed in a camping chair

On a dreary winter evening

You can always go back there.

 

Lying on a camp bed

Looking at the stars

Wondering which is Jupiter

Or Venus or is it Mars?

 

Wearing shorts and t shirts

Washing with a hose

Standing on a sandy beach

And burying your toes.

 

Covering your legs with sand

Becoming a mermaid

Digging to Australia

With a flimsy plastic spade.

 

Driving along a country lane

Looking for the sea

That first glimpse is magical

Sixpence for you and me

 

Cockles and whelks and mussels

Fish and chips and a walk on the pier

A Penny arcade and a dodgem car

That's impossible to steer.

Crossing the channel at sunset

Arriving in France at the break of day

Before we start our journey

Croissants and caffè au lait.

 

Picnics in a haystack

With bread and strawberry jam

Then later by the river

With bread and cheese and ham.

 

No seat belts then to strap us in

Though we raced along so fast

Heads stuck out the sun roof

With snorkels to break the blast.

 

No suntan lotion was applied

To our pale English skin

When it started to turn pink

We simply just went in

 

Looking for a shady spot

And a lolly to cool down

We never really bothered

About turning golden brown.

 

Oh I do love August

It's such a happy time

I hope you are on holiday

I hope you like my rhyme.

 

Mountains, Lakes and beaches

Rivers to explore

Waterfalls and countryside

What could we ask for more.

 

It's a happy jolly healing month

When families get together

Having fun and playing

Showing they love each other. 

thank you to my family who make my Augusts special