Let's Sit A Bit...

 Happy June!!

Come, let’s just sit a bit my dear, and watch the garden grow

For soon its bloom will disappear beneath a sheath of snow

Come, let’s recline and watch the vine climb sunshine’s golden gate

In tints of mint and lime, let’s watch spring’s Paean celebrate

Come, let’s just sit a bit and leave those to-do lists alone

For even now Time’s grit and grin carves Beauty to the bone

And soon high noon of June wears hints of first green’s lullaby

The flower of the hour fades, June traded for July

Come, let’s just sit a bit and sip the wine of pure sunshine

Let’s let the lilt of leaf-song stir in us rapture divine

For from the barren limb the bud bursts into hymns of praise

And thrills our hearts with wonder at the art that fills man’s gaze

Come, let’s just sit a bit, my friend, for Time began its toll

In a garden, where we still feel God nearer to the soul

...and here In The Beginning of another year of bloom

The garden feels a little like Heaven’s grand waiting room

So, let’s just sit a bit and revel in the rush of Time

Let’s watch the world as it unfurls in swirls of mint and lime

Come, let’s recline and watch the vine before its brittle stem

Is all that remains of spring-summer’s unchained diadem

© Janet Martin