Because The Best Things In Life Are Free...

This was going to be a poem for the prompt the other day but due to very on/off internet 

and very busy schedule it didn't happen. the internet is still weak at best. 

(Hoping it will work out the kinks on its own...)

also to add to blogging discouragement is a camera that only half-works 

so I'm borrowing another photo taken by my niece Brittany Ruppert

On a brighter note...enough baby-cuddles to make everything else worth it!

Have you ever had to pay

For a smile

Or a stroll in a

Warm summer rain

Or an entrance fee

To the free-flung isle

Where new day spills

A pink and golden train

Did you ever buy

The blue sky overhead

Or tickets

To nature’s symphony

Of brook-bird-breeze

Or the buzzing, busy bees

Or the soft, lisping lyric

In the tree

Or the hymn in the dimming of the day

Or the wild-flower garden at our feet

Or the awesome color-wheel of mauve-crimson-teal

On yon fringe where earth and heaven meet

Or the giggle or the grin of a child

Or the hush of a white wonder-world

Or the croon of a dove or the moon hung above

But beneath the Milky Way unfurled

Or the sheen of the greenest green of all

As earth dons shawls and frocks and frills

Or the trill of the lark or the still after dark

Or the way day empties and refills

Have you ever had to pay

For a hug

Or the tug when

Your heart-cup overflows

Or an entrance fee

To the perfect company

Of a baby with a

Little button nose…

© Janet Martin