Recognizing June...

Reveling in June...

Before the crickets start to sing

Nature sets earth at ease

After the heady rush of spring

Has settled into leaves

It steeps the air with fairest sense

Of endless afternoon

While rousing rippling frond-cadence

We’ve come to know as June

And now we bow before plush plumes

Lupine and peony

To praise the Author of bud-looms

For petal majesty

Of iris, lily, columbine

Ditches where wild phlox flows

Clematis and wisteria-vine

Delphinium and rose

Blight has not smitten summer yet

Delight is sure and new

Each tree a green fan grandly set

Against backdrops pure blue

And everywhere we turn we hear

Sweet bird-song's carefree tune

All part of why hearts hold so dear

The happiness of June

We start to harvest the first fruits

Of dust entrusted seeds

How slender still, the rebel-roots

Of bold and heedless weeds

Where the more seasoned gardener knows

We must pluck them for soon

A weed like a bad habit grows

Unless addressed in June

We cool ourselves in pools of shade

Beneath a canopy

Of lush luminous leaf-brocade

How lovely is each tree

Where we go drifting ‘neath its limbs

On a lux’ry pontoon

While being regaled with breeze -hymns

We recognize as June

© Janet Martin