Farewell Summer

I'm working at cleaning out the garden

after a few September frosts 

finished off some of the foliage.

Farewell summer.

To everything there is a season but, oh, 

why does summer always seems shortest of all?!

 

(photo below from my sister Lucy's garden)

(Someday when time is freer I hope to do a photo-tour of her enchanting gardens and nooks)

Winsome whisper 

Flutter, flicker 

Glimmer, shimmer 

Butterfly 

High-five, blunder 

Starlight thunder 

Wide-eyed wonder 

My, oh my 

Finger waggle 

Barter, haggle 

Vim-bedraggled 

Yep and nope 

Lend and borrow, 

Joy and sorrow 

Hail the morrow’s 

Brighter hope 

Tears and laughter 

Days fly faster 

Before-after 

Empty-full 

Oops-a-daisy 

Drives us crazy 

Don’t be lazy 

Push and pull 

Pick a rosy 

Pretty posy 

Linger-mosey 

Dosey-doe 

Blue and yellow 

Friendly hello 

Hurried fellow 

Hold, let go 

Plant a garden 

Beg no pardon 

For chores undone 

Hoe and weed 

Sun-kissed pleasure 

Spills its measure 

Into treasure 

Born of seed 

Hustle-bustle 

Bowls and bushels 

Muster muscle 

Grin and groan 

Cricket-cadence 

Sedum radiance 

Winnows dreamlands 

To the bone 

Poplar-shiver 

Aspen-quiver 

Petal-river 

Poetry 

Pours the murmur 

Of sweet summer 

To become her 

Memory 

© Janet Martin