Prelude to The Heat Wave

PAD Challenge day 28: For today’s prompt, take the phrase “(blank) Wave,” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles include: “Tidal Wave,” “Next Wave,” “Friendly Wave,” “Heat Wave,” and/or “Sound Wave.”
(Playing a little Catch-up with the prompts)

 

Fixed upon the feet of Time

Daisy-dreams are dancing

We, weary of winter’s clime

Welcome spring’s romancing

Violet and daffodil

Strewed like gems upon the hill

Gone the gray and grating chill

Zephyrs come a-prancing

Strum the strings of green and gold

Bud unfolds the bower

Ring those petal-bells that hold

Beauty born of shower

Sing a simple song of mirth

To the Lord of Heav’n and earth

Death is refurbished with birth

Hope bears fruit and flower

Love and longing ebbs and flows

Lilacs lose their luster

Blush then, peony and rose

Pink as pink can muster

Teach us to be moment-glad

Make the most of what we have

Lest, while lost in what we had

Winds renew their bluster

© Janet Martin