November Sweet-song

Writer's Digest PAD Challenge; day 10

For today’s prompt, write a poem incorporating something sweet. Maybe a cake or pie. Possibly a candy bar or pixie stick (you know, that paper straw with delicious sugar inside–mmm). Or move it sweetly in another direction.

Sometimes in November

I keenly crave

The salt-sweet kiss

Of sun-sparkle bliss

Rushing

In aquamarine wave

Sometimes in November

I lonesome-ly long

For the slow

Syrupy cadence

Of willow-sigh

And locust song

Sometimes in November

I patiently pine

For a mulled merlot

Of long ago

Sweet

Summer-tinted wine

Sometimes in November

I quietly yearn

For what will be

What is

And what will

Never again return

© Janet Martin

 Sometimes in November I'm restless with reluctant realization that the sweetness of another year is nearly spent...