Memento

This morning summer climbed my porch like a yellow cat, warm and lazy...

Poetic Blooms prompt: day 26: metaphors and similes

Summer morning climbs over the hill

To sit on my porch like a yellow cat

Licking its paws

Before it slips through the underbrush

To become part of

The World That Was

Little girl laughs; Leaps, limber and lithe

Through a blue and gold afternoon of

Summer art

Before she slips from ribbons and curls

Scattering mementos that mother folds

And holds in her heart

Summer dusk fills its melting pot

With the rise and fall of Time’s

Latest foray

Before it too falls prey to the reaching way

Of midnight's melding, the shaky, black gelding

Stands, then gallops away

© Janet Martin