At dVerse Lillian is hosting Poetics with an invitation to choose two or more provided song titles to use in a poem.
dVerse Poets – Poetics – Come Sing With Me
I have chosen two titles:
A Long December (Counting Crows)
Let It Go (Idina Menzel)

Photo: Ocean Beach near Denmark, Western Australia.
“Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.” Yoko Ono
The Long Dry There's no steeling oneself for a long December, the time when the long dry commences and only a brave cloud would dare to mar the sky, while gum leaves are leathered and turned to the cicada chorale coursing the thermals, with faint stirrings of Matilda dancing, infused with a waft of sea and a splash of sun which crusts the earth and fills me along with a tease of rosemary, lavender, or jasmine, there's no need to steel oneself, no time for winter's sorrow, only time to let it go for summer's halcyon days. Copyright 2022 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®️