Surely Silver...

Summer cannot last forever

Though sometimes we wish it could

Just like wisdom surely silver

Crowns the brow like snow on wood

Pleasant is the purple river

Purled of clover-cloven plume

But like wisdom surely silver

Is the climax of the bloom

Green is mercy’s gift to nature

Youth and summer coalesce

But like wisdom surely silver

Keens its kiss in fledgling tress

Time pours petals from its quiver

Myriad of colors fall

But like wisdom surely silver

Is the fairest of them all

© Janet Martin