You Sorta Make Me Think of a Summer's Day: Valentine's Day Poem

Updating Shakespeare for the Modern Audience

Rhetta Akamatsu
You sorta make me think of a summer's day.

You're hot like one, but not as sweaty.

We get a lot of rains and storms in May,

And summer days shred just like confetti:

Sometimes the sun is just too doggoned hot,

And many times it doesn't even shine,

And fair-skinned girls get more sun than they thought,

And then their skin doesn't look so fine

As they get old and their skin gets taut.

But you will ever be my summer dream

And your skin will be as clear, unlined and fair;

And you'll never look like Death is on the scene

Even when you are old and sagging here and there.

As long as people live and they can see

They'll read this poem and that's the way you'll be.

Published by Rhetta Akamatsu

Rhetta is the author of The Irish Slaves, published October 2010, and Haunted Marietta, published by History Press in September, 2009. She also has several other books, Ghost to Coast,Ghost to Coast Tours a...  View profile

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  • Sheryl Young5/28/2009

    Nice...cute title.

  • Rhetta Akamatsu5/26/2009

    Thank you:)

  • Typing for Food5/26/2009

    Awwwwwwwwww, and LOL! Neat poem. Thanks.

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