Monday, July 25, 2022

Summer-sweep



With the last week of July underway
summer's swift sweep/leap is becoming increasingly tangible...

Wild grapevine climbs the fence
Bliss is a tendril caught...

Where summer brims with poetry
Like a fruit-laden plate...


The beach at dusk is grand
A speechless 'my-oh-my'
A wild, wind-wave-tossed wonderland
Of sand and sea and sky...





Wild grapevine climbs the fence
Bliss is a tendril caught
On the barbwire of consequence
Threading freedom of thought

Thought wanders, fancy free
So much to contemplate
Where summer brims with poetry
Like a fruit-laden plate

The fruit of toil is sweet
Cherry, blueberry, peach
Afternoon rolls across bare feet
Like waves across a beach

The beach at dusk is grand
A speechless 'my-oh-my'
A wild, wind-wave-tossed wonderland
Of sand and sea and sky

The sky is its own world
A burgeoning buffet
Glory's declaration unfurled
In blue-blush-swirled, mauve-gray

In ripe yellow and red
Earth echoes heaven's hymn
To overflow the garden bed
As seed and bud-berths brim

...with fresh five-star cuisine
Veggie charcuterie
Hollyhock bistros, pink and green
Beckon to honeybee

...as cricket-balladeers
Kindle tugs, bittersweet
Because we know what disappears
With each rippled tweet-tweet

Sunshine steeps soul and skin
Gold seeps into each pore
Where happiness cannot begin
To tally Delight’s score

While heights of summer pale
Like petals, bright but brief
While flower laden frigates sail
Where death is always chief

...while milestones beck and blur
Sun-sparkles on life's sea
To catch our breath before summer
Becomes a memory

...let's savour without guilt
Without apology
An afternoon spread on a quilt
Beneath a picnic-tree

© Janet Martin

...with fresh five-star cuisine


Veggie charcuterie...








Hollyhock bistros, pink and green
Beckon to honeybee...




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