Finding My Mind...Wandering

I’m a day late with Thursday’s wikem. Thank-you Sasha, for the weekly inspiration! 

A mind /ˈmaɪnd/ is the set of cognitive faculties that enables consciousness, perception, thinking, judgement, and memory—a characteristic of humans, but which also may apply to other life forms

 Wikipedia

The trees are humming my favorite song

And I am trying to follow along

For in its new-born-green-leaf melody

My mind turns both friend and enemy

Letting me linger while letting me down

Fleet-fingered vortex vexing mortal crown

Keeping enough to let me know the rest

Somehow got lost in life’s juggle and jest

Where, like a clenched fist Thought tries to hold on

As time inhales and exhales, dusk, then dawn

While ever filling archives of the mind

Scattering pieces that I cannot find

But just now, when the blue breeze ran its grin

Over leaves, like Green-sleeves on a violin

...I heard a melody stirred in its twirl

Of half-woman and half yesterday’s girl

And I am inclined to allow my mind

To look for the pieces that it cannot find

Because, quite frankly, I find that my mind

Is a bit like a dandelion in the wind...

© Janet Martin