In summer the song sings itself

Summer is here!  For some reason, there is something special about summer for many and the same is true for me.  Unless I’m sitting on a boat sipping on something cold, I’m not a particular fan of extreme heat, but I do love all the wonderful things you can do. Both inside and out. I guess that is one of the reasons I like Summer so much…the options are pretty much endless and the memories to be made are boundless.
There is a line in the poem “The Botticellian Trees” by William Carlos Williams that to me sums it up perfectly.
“In summer the song
sings itself”
So go ahead, step outside. Enjoy life and let the songs of summer roll on.

Here is the complete poem:

“The Botticellian Trees”

by William Carlos Williams

The alphabet of
the trees

is fading in the
song of the leaves

the crossing
bars of the thin

letters that spelled
winter

and the cold
have been illumined

with
pointed green

by the rain and sun
the strict simple

principles of
straight branches

are being modified
by pinched out

ifs of color, devout
conditions

the smiles of love

. . . . . . . .

until the stript
sentences

move as a woman’s
limbs under cloth

and praise from secrecy
quick with desire

love’s ascendancy
in summer–

In summer the song
sings itself

above the muffled words–

-William Carlos Williams (1930)