Would We Could...

It's  been a week of kiddos, corn, peaches and flowers...So fun!

(and sinus infection.😏) No fun!

Would, we could relive your hours

Linger longer in your flow’rs

Pause your page of cricket-hymns

Stay the stage where summer dims

Would we could retrace your days

Lusty, musky, dusty haze

Heaven-shimmers from a flask

Pouring more than we could ask

Would we could, but none can stall

Rush or save time’s free-for-all

No one can return a bit

To redo one flit of it

Would we could turn summer’s chime

Back to one ‘o clock in time

But time tarries for no one

It is always here and gone

Would we then, with thankful heart

Seize the mist of moment-art

Give the best that we can give

To that which none can relive

© Janet Martin