What is June?

What is June?

June is a ribbon of coral and gold

Brushing the skyline while it is still night

June is maiden so youthful and bold

Flouncing her ringlets in girlish delight

She shakes out her skirts and rampantly spills

Wild-flower gardens over hollow and hill

What is June?

June is a door standing slightly ajar

To glimmer of turquoise and sea-polished shores

She is the threshold we seek from afar

As winter and spring trip across earthen floors

The cry of the gull and the trill of the lark

The song of the robin while it is still dark

What is June?

She is hands outstretched, sweetly running over

With peony, lupine, with daisy and rose

She is a soul-mate, a beautiful lover

Stirring our passion and holding us close

In vast, emerald tides her melody sweeps

Out to the eyes of azure-blue deeps

What is June?

She is a year’s darling; the middle child

The gleaming gem twixt spring and fall

Composer, as her Muse runs wild

Of summer’s haunting madrigal

Whilst from her radiant fingertips

A little glimpse of Heaven slips

© Janet Martin