Friday, August 14, 2020

Awe's Sum...or Awesome August

 



August awes us with its beauty
Bites our backs with burning sun
Tugs the heart twixt dream and duty
Wild its flower-rivers run

August woos us with brave wonder
Hint of farewell winks its eye
O’er an ocean of bloom-plunder 
Bobs the bee with butterfly

August brims with ample treasure
Beckons us to glean its wealth
Bids us sample Mercy’s measure
Here’s to happiness and health

August teases us with tinges
Rousing bittersweet lament
Where its sultry midday hinges
To a world of summer spent

August angles evening shadows
Early over stubble-sweep
While the cricket tunes the meadows
With incessant cheep-cheep-cheep

August sizzles like a fry-pan
Reeds guzzle the creek-bed dry
Heat-waves ripple on the skyline
Hairdos fizzle in reply

August is a wordless sonnet
Luring bards of meeker stance
To capture its stirring ballad
In a melody of thanks

August is a groaning table
Laden with earth’s zest and zeal
Beneath heaven’s bluest gable
August spreads a five-star meal

August, a common-place palace
August, a garden, a beach
August is a phlox-gilt chalice
August is a dripping peach

August awes us with sweet splendor
Season steeped in ironweed
Cicadas drone, brooks meander
Finches feast on thistle-seed

© Janet Martin 


3 comments:

  1. Oh, my Goodness, Janet, how on earth do you do this? Your writing is truly a God-given gift.

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    1. all through yesterday the lines steeped my senses. It's one of the poems that wouldn't rest till it was written. and when it was done I said 'thank-you God'<3

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