Some Saturday Similes and Smiles

 I know I've said it before...but, I LOVE Saturdays

Saturdays are like Time's kiss on the cheek

Saying well done, little earthling,

You made it through another week

So slow down a little, pour that second cup

Before Duty's dictation demands,  "hurry up!"

Today I'm trying a recipe familiar to many, but I've hardly ever made;

Poor Man's Steak

I need to cook for a few large-ish functions in the near future so this is a practice run...

I added chopped parsley though not required...

But because I harvested MANY bowls full from the garden last fall I add it to whatever I can for fantastic health benefits and color!

...soon, soon earth's frozen sweeps will sigh

With wheat-field-gold beneath blue sky!!!

The land is like a quiet sea

Before the wind rises to stir

Earth’s fallow-field tranquility

Into gold, rippling barley-blur

Dawn, like a gateway to a path

Flings wide life’s untried miles-to-go

Then gathers in its aftermath

A labyrinth of highs and low

Bygone is like a subtle scale

It weighs ways of virtue and vice

Where past is like a cast of trails

Forged by both foolish choice and wise

The present day, like a buffet

Invites us all to take and eat

Where what we do and what we say

Seasons tomorrow’s bitter-sweet

The sun is like a big sky-grin

In spite of all that we may lack

It brightens the place we are in

And makes us feel like smiling back

The heart is like a diary

Upon its hidden pages press

The echoes of what used to be

Of home-sweet-home sweet happiness

April is like a restless boy

Pant-legs rolled up, bare feet in mud

Where soon Time’s boon of sorrow-joy

Siphons the blossom from the bud

…and earth is like an orchard, oh,

Four seasons strum its green-leaf leas

How swift the little saplings grow

Into hardy fruit-bearing trees

A smile is like a pretty gift

We love to get; then what you say

We give those mouth-corners a lift

And give its pretty gift away

© Janet Martin

Hope you are having a Happy Saturday who and wherever you are!

...and a good song for a beautiful life!