Enjoy!

Enjoy! This fleeting meeting with earth’s treasure trove of bloom

(For every bud breaks only once to splay its petal-plume)

It excites expectation as earth’s flower-sea runs wild

And invites us to wade through it with wonder of a child

Enjoy! This panoramic sweep of green-gold promenade

Cannot keep verdant color long, before it starts to fade

Then pursue with intention heady hues of purple-pink

Where what we take for granted is transplanted in a wink

Enjoy the lay of leaf-vesper as light of day grows dim

Notice the way branch-minstrels play summer’s perfected hymn

Before life’s law and order reclaims what began at birth

Where nothing with the breath of life can remain here on earth

Enjoy! Applaud the God who creates all four seasons well

Who, with no help from anyone designed each flower-bell

And placed between the bully gales that blow, spring-summer-fall

Where for his glory nature spills the best worship of all

© Janet Martin