Grail of Grateful Gladness

 It's a drippy morning, but stunning still!

Color cascades, gray-blue-yellow

Over heaven’s wall

Morning, like a jocund fellow

Metes time’s madrigal

Gifts too manifold to mention

Pour from grace-gilt grail

Summer’s streams in green redemption

Over hill and vale

Slow thy hurried wish and worry

Lest thou skimmest bow’rs

Where man’s Maker, rich in mercy

Mentors us with flow’rs

Touch Time’s yoke of season-splendour

With love’s humble awe

For its tokens, swift and tender

Yield to nature’s law

‘Faith is substance of things hoped for’

Not Want’s futile sigh

June attunes the heart to wonder

At God’s kind reply

© Janet Martin