Like a Dream Come True...

Last evening summer officially arrived...

and what an entrance she made!

 So flamboyant was her 'hello' that the south-east sky caught fire as arrival and departure coalesced.

...well, its off to the garden where some dusting, weeding and re-seeding is needed

Earth heralds Her with wild-bloom grace

And traces green with gold

Where Her first bud was bashful lace

It billows, bright and bold

The yellow heat that seeps through deeps

To bleed the dark awry

Is caught in starry butter-cups

Then tossed back to the sky

The lithesome gait of flip-flop feet

In soft percussion lilts

Like background banter on a street

Where joy’s sheet music spilt

The heavens, like a coronet

Of coral, sapphire, pink

Crowns morn-noon, ere dusk's silhouette

Is dipped in raven ink

The happiness of dream-come-true

Renews the hopeful heart

As flower-bells in endless hue

Scatter their flawless art

And every brook and crook and hill

Thrills, like a song unfurled

Where choristers of nature spill

A rainbow-colored world

Then we join in their anthems too

God’s promises abide

As Summer, like a dream-come-true

Ravishes countryside

© Janet Martin