Standing Still

 My brother was laughing as he pulled up beside my vehicle

on the shoulder of the road a few hundred feet from my driveway, with my arm out the window 

to snag a photo or ten. "it's just so beautiful I can't help it! I laughed

 and he said "yeah, you almost make me wanna take one!"
 (and all the way to town it was drive, pull over click, drive pull over click!)

We had a stunning sky-buffet all day today!

 Sometimes we just have to stop and look... twice!

Then look, before that subtle door swings shut on hinges with soft ease

The luring sky is pure azure where soundless schooners sail its seas

Its boundless sweep leaps above earth and dwarfs the rolling field and hill

And makes me walk a little slower until I am standing still

Then listen where wind minstrels strum the musky strings of brome and sage

Where sleepless cricket-choirs turn entire earth into a stage

Where something in the air invites us to slow down and take a seat

And make the most where hours drip like flower-petals ‘neath our feet

© Janet Martin