Day-trip

PAD Challenge day 10: For today’s prompt, write a travel poem.

 

Let’s make a day of it

And travel where the hours

Unravel lanes where swallows flit

Through hollows frilled with flow’rs

…and brooklets lilt and laugh

Like autographs from God

And all along the wooded path

The dogtooth violets nod

…and breezes ebb and flow

Like sea-song, ethereal

And buttercups like golden snow

Bedazzles hill and dell

…and wander-lands of green

Herald nature’s rebirth

Where everything seems seventeen

Giddy with dreams and mirth

...and earth, once more akin

To Eden’s perfect world

Invites us to glimpse heaven in

A day of spring unfurled

Let's make a day of it

Let's climb each grassy height

Until the sky is diamond-lit

And earth slips out of sight

© Janet Martin