Poem-tation

pōəm -ˈtāSH(ə)n/ Definition: Temptation to compose poem😉😊😍

Watching Tot chase bubbles reminded me a bit

of Poet chasing Poem...

The art of poem-tation seeps through every shade of sky

It vexes concentration in each leaf that flutters by

Four seasons worth of beauty with life’s troubles juxtapose

To cheer the thorns of duty with an unrelenting rose

The tug of poem-tation surges from dawn’s teeming brink

The clockwork of creation hoists premieres streaming with ink

Disparity twixt hand and heart, resumes its rivalry

Where charity pursues the part that authors poetry

The joy of poem-tation reels beneath the wheels of grief

A constant invitation to pursue hues veiled beneath

What meets the eye to stoke the sky and tint the glint of blooms

Soon lowered like a lullaby to stubble-stippled tombs

The wink of poem-tation is both flirtatious and grim

The fruit of inspiration bends the lyric-laden limb

Where words threaded together should do more than lilt and rhyme

Ah, pray they cheer and help us weather ups and downs of Time

The dust of poem-tation is stirred by a breath of breeze

That sparks a celebration shimmering in poplar trees

Rousing the strange impression of a river rushing where

Time’s four-season succession flows through shores of leaf and air

The prize of poem-tation dangles like a pendulum

Hope’s eager expectation wonders if the words will come

How cautiously Want clutches at inklings that start to drop

Lest, as soon as Thought touches it, like bubbles…

Poem

Goes 

‘Pop’

© Janet Martin

Soon lowered like a lullaby to stubble-stippled tombs...