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# Summer at the Lake
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/summer-at-the-lake/
- Published: 2024-04-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-04-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: The dragonfly, its shimmer iridescent, caught hovering above the lily's cup. Nearby the gnats are swarming, their incessant and shoal like movement, every rise and drop, is reminiscent of a single creature, until a sw...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

The dragonfly, its shimmer iridescent,  
caught hovering above the lily's cup.  
Nearby the gnats are swarming, their incessant  
and shoal like movement, every rise and drop,  
is reminiscent of a single creature,  
until a swallow dives into the swarm,  
and gulps a dozen down. (Its naming feature,  
if I can take a minute to inform,  
not for its mouth, but for its cleft shaped tail).  
While this goes on, and wholly undetected,  
a stealthy frog is managing to scale  
the lily pad, and when it's least expected,  
shoots out its wagging tongue above the lake,  
but comes up empty having missed the drake.