Let's Call it a Day

A carry-over from the PAD challenge prompt yesterday; let's call it a day! Guess what; it is almost sunny!! We have been and are going to be wet, wet, wet for a little while yet...

Let’s call it a day

I know, it isn’t night

But Time has much too much to tease

A poet’s appetite

And I would hate to miss

Its marvel of romance

Because I didn’t taste its kisses

When I had the chance

Maybe another day

We’ll work til way past dark

But now I want to hear the hope

Of bud bejeweled bark

And Time waits for no man

Although we dare not shirk

Our Duty for too long, sometimes

We need a break from work

The wanderer is rich

In things money can’t buy

He marvels how the earth flows like

A freeway to the sky

And every season God

Embellishes its lea

With miracles to rare for word

In nature’s poetry

So, let’s call it a day

Though it is barely noon

The banister where children play

Outgrows us far too soon

And how sad it would be

To grow old without rhyme

Missing God’s poetry because

We didn’t have the time

© Janet Martin