Of Another Summer

Happy August 2016!

These are the days of harvest

The gathering of hours

As summer fills and drains the trove

Of fields and trees and flowers

These are the days of labor

The tending of a plot

Where soon the wave of summer wanes

To graves of afterthought

These are the days of glory

Childhood is unrestrained

Upon the verge of history

Its splurge of bloom is chained

These are the days of learning

That Time will wait for none

A shimmer snuffed where outstretched hands

Sift seasons swiftly spun

These are the days of travel

Pursuit and retreat mesh

Beneath the gavel of blue skies

Time tries the trust of flesh

These are the days of summer

A haze of color weaned

To pages filled with poems of

Another summer gleaned

© Janet Martin