Hello Again After An Unexpected Break!

Due to a power-surge a few days ago we were suddenly out of internet...
back on this morning after they figured out our router simply needs to be reset😊!
(reminded me if this 'chuckle')

This was the poem I was posting when the power-surge went through...

Early Morning Musing Whilst Dead-heading Flowers

Now the hour is a vendor and the flower is a sigh

As it scatters summer’s splendour where our footsteps hasten by

Stirring dust that softly settles leaving little to its name

Like the full bloom strews its petals and returns from whence it came

Now the moment metes the tempo in time’s unchained melody

Touch releases the memento that composes Memory

Love and longing compose lyrics for an audience of one

Vain to entertain hysterics for what cannot be undone

Now new day raises the curtain to earth’s awesome theater

Where nobody knows for certain what is about to occur

For this fling with fragile beauty kindles ire in a beast

Challenging the charge of Duty with fires of dreamer’s feast

Now the willing garden beckons like a poem without page

And the tiller of it reckons with the war before the wage

And the craving for sweet summer cannot satisfy its tooth

Where each twilight is a bummer where each blossom is a booth

Now the box that holds the presents we wished for on winter’s day

Unlocks a breath-stealing essence; Death stalking its primal prey

And the rose we hinged our hopes on startles us with thorny socks

Darling, so it goes, each season has both caress and hard knocks

Now the hour is a vendor, we, contenders of its stock

Born to become seasoned spenders on the circle of the clock

Where the Bud unfolds its pinion in a fugitive salute

Then falls prey to the Dominion that nobody can refute

© Janet Martin