Fantastic Freebies

 Photos of a few freebies that made my day...

For feasts spread on heaven’s buffet

For moss mantles on long-lost tombs

For miracles of flower-bells

Or hawthorn bush snow-white with blooms

For picnics beneath heaven's dome

For blue forget-me-not bouquet

And fodder for ten-thousand poems

Lavishing time's day-to-day

For green in sundry shade and sheen

For hills that waken wanderlust

For rain to wash the wide world clean

While we trample unconscious dust

…and fill heart-cups with hope and dream

And dance upon a fresh-spun day

Or idle by the giddy stream

To watch the minnows dart and play

For newborn calf, children that laugh

For people that we love and miss

For light that spawns sun-dappled lawns

For chubby baby-hug and kiss

For farmer’s whistling as they go

For lad that follows in his steps

For rills that bound with melted snow

And tumble to uncharted depths

 

For hedge, refurbished with spring’s leaf

And sedge rejuvenating a-ahs

For marsh-marigold gilded creek

And nature’s un-forgetting laws

For poetry of dusk-hushed lea

For winter’s holiday, hurray

For soil to plant and toil to grant

A well-earned rest after the day

For blue-eyed cares and bedtime prayers

For velvet vesper-lullabies

For songs to sing and simple things

That yield glimpses of paradise

For birds and butterflies and bees

For words to whisper what we think

For fair-as-flower memories 

And daylight's farewell, yellow-pink

For bread to break and meals to make

And garden-getaways at home

For bracken haunt and stilly lake

And wild-bloom, back-wood trails to roam

For sorrow spun in happy days

For every blessing free at large

We offer humble, grateful praise

To He who grants it a No Charge

© Janet Martin