Heaven to Ramble

PAD Challenge day 27: For today’s prompt, use at least 3 of the following 6 words in your poem (using a word or two in your title is fine); for extra credit, try using all 6:

pest
crack
ramble
hiccup
wince
festoon

Heaven to ramble where April meets May

Beneath breath-awnings of emerald festoon

After a hiccup in spring’s first hurray

Winter’s wince succumbs to zephyr’s kiss-croon

Pestering broods scatter, east-west-north-south

Lest a smile crack his stern, petrified mouth

© Janet Martin