Invitation To Enjoy August!

August is like thirty-one days of waking up on Christmas morning!

August’s warm invitation rolls across the tolling lea

Summer’s glad celebration hails from brimming land and sea

Then revel in its bliss before it disappears from view

And satisfy addictions for green, gold, purple and blue

August anoints creation with intoxicating hues

It fulfills expectation with wild-bloom fringed avenues

Then drink its elixir before it drip-drips out of reach

Satisfy sweet addictions for watermelon and peach

August delights the senses with its dusty, dewy gait

It lavishes the landscape with excuses to be late

Then take the detour before summer slip-slips from the lane

And satisfy addictions for its sun-sweet drops of rain

August is like a portrait steeped in sweeps of blue and gold

The Artist fills earth’s canvas with pure beauty to behold

Then make the most of what is bound to fade into thin air

And satisfy addictions for flavours than none can snare

August begins to hint at words we cannot bear to taste

Its hazy dog-day afternoons are too glorious to waste

So chase those silver thistle-parachutes as they sail by

And satisfy addictions for cicada’s plaintive cry

August ignites an ache that breaks the heart with happiness

It makes us weep for joy where harvest bends the orchard tress

Then embrace here and now before the cricket’s tweet-tweet dies

And satisfy addictions for flowers and butterflies

© Janet Martin