The sun God beams her rays on earth<\/p>\n
Creating dancing shadows<\/p>\n
People flourish with reborn mirth<\/p>\n
Singing with drums and banjos<\/p>\n
Warmer days set our skins aglow<\/p>\n
Fruits ripen ever faster<\/p>\n
We salute the dawn with gusto<\/p>\n
While wildflowers fill pastures<\/p>\n
Children hang their bright suncatchers<\/p>\n
In reds and oranges of sunrise<\/p>\n
The longest day is now captured<\/p>\n
Where sprouts reach out to the skies<\/p>\n
Dawns a fresh season of outside<\/p>\n
Amidst vivid green color<\/p>\n
The sun soars above to new heights<\/p>\n
And fiddlehead ferns unfurl<\/p>\n
Wearing flower crowns in dance spins<\/p>\n
All souls warmed in summertide<\/p>\n
Alive with birdsong and squirrels<\/p>\n
Handpicked herbs are vased and dried<\/p>\n
The north folk have a skipping stride<\/p>\n
Golden sun forms baked in dough<\/p>\n
Welcoming rebirth, purified<\/p>\n
With stewardship, seeds are sewn.<\/p>\n
The Capital City Weekly accepts poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction submissions for Writers\u2019 Weir on a rolling basis and will publish them as space and competition allow. Send submissions to editor@capweek.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The sun God beams her rays on earth Creating dancing shadows People flourish with reborn mirth Singing with drums and banjos Warmer days set our skins aglow Fruits ripen ever faster We salute the dawn with gusto While wildflowers fill pastures Children hang their bright suncatchers In reds and oranges of sunrise The longest day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15796"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}