A June Jingle...

 When I needed help with a word, idea or line 

I just walked outside and let June have her say...

Weaves frothed stars of wind-strummed lilac into fragrant lullaby

Leaves ladders of love and longing propped against cerulean sky

Wakes the whisper in the willow; paints the world with poetry  

Breaks the bud that floods the woodland with leaf-minstrel’s melody

Teases tassels tossed against the fence where twilight shadows sigh

Eases nature’s adolescence toward bold bloom of July

Ladles from celestial caldrons, sweet-as-honey sunny noon

Cradles candy-tuft and cosmos in its pockets; darling June

Steeps the earth in mirth of blossom, scatters petal-tatters wild

Keeps the heart of seasoned lovers in tune with their inner child

Stirs the song that long lay dormant as the seed in snowy nook

Blurs the chuckle of the orchard with the chortle of the brook

Lures the bee back to the bell-shaped bistro brimming with sweet tea

Cures the blues of middle winter with the pinks of peony

Fixes fickle maladies with elixir of fresh-mown hay

Tickles noses with the dust we kick up as we shout hooray

Tips the palette of an Artist that all others imitate

Slips lobelia-lupine-loosestrife through the grass-embellished gate

Rouses reds, yellows and purples to enhance the common dune

Bows our heads in humble worship to the God who grants us June

© Janet Martin