The Love of June

(really wet then quick cold to hot is making for a brief peony season;( so we enjoy now as much as we can!)

Here is my weekly wikem on June:

June is the month with the longest daylight hours of the year. Wikipedia

If lent the chance my feet would dance across Her flowered dress

Without a break for slumber; unencumbered by Due’s call

Where she has spread above our heads a great celestial ball

And planted earth in gardens spilling rainbow happiness

If nature had a law that could be bent it would be June

We would extend the hours of Her stay and stretch the place

That seems to tease and put at ease the care-worn human face

Kissing us with appointments beneath arc of willow-tune

Even the critic is hard pressed to pinpoint valid flaws

She tilts his chin to marvel at the colors of her smile

And fills the fields with daisies; clover-hazy lanes beguile

The most industrious of creatures to relent and pause…

…to taste the haste of honeyed-noon dripping from heaven’s spoon

To drink the pink of peony and ponder as we stroll

The bud and how it holds within its folds a perfect soul

And proof of our ineptness to improve the love of June

© Janet Martin