A Fantastic Matter of Fact

PAD Challenge, Day 2: For today’s prompt, write a “not today” poem.

There will be chairs of sand

And diets of sea-breeze and sun

And population tanned

And duty’s to-do left undone

Skies, bottomless and blue

Will drowse above the turquoise deep

Time’s panoramic view

White-capped, wind-swept and half-asleep

Laughter will lilt, a kite

The hour neither there nor here

Without a clock in sight

Save sailboats etched on coral pier

There will be barefoot strolls

But where we walked, no one can tell

There will be fishing poles

And fish that never bite, oh well

There will be summer, oh

There will be Holiday

There will be sea-song ebb and flow

But darling, not today

© Janet Martin