A Summer Day Poem by Leah Stout

Stuck in the heat of a summer day
In the middle of a long summer walk
Heated by a golden sunshine ray

We will go there if we may
To the cool pool at the end of the block
Stuck in the heat of a summer day

Families host picnics down by the bay
We don't wear one shoe or sock
Heated by a golden sunshine ray

On blankets and grass we will lay
Sipping lemonade-the cups are on that rock-
Stuck in the heat of a summer day

Wishing we were on a private cay
Hearing waves and birds that mock
Heated by a golden sunshine ray

We want candy, we repeatedly say
But the 'good stuff' is under key and lock
Stuck in the heat of a summer day
Heated by a golden sunshine ray