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Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Agile Acrobat


Today begins a new school year in Canada, 
and though the calendar says its still summer
for a few more weeks, 
summer always feels officially over when school begins!
My prayers are for lots of tots and parents this morning 
as many weather tides of
fears and tears 
of letting go etc...

Sometimes I pinch myself
at how once upon a time 
The Summer of Life seemed to stretch
endlessly ahead!
Now I turn to see its 'eternity'
 as nothing more than a splash of sun-sparkles
on a sea-swept shore...



Time winks and whisks another summer into memory books
As sentimental mothers gaze with fond and lingering looks
At days that sweetly, swiftly swept through outstretched hearts and hands
To join their predecessors kept in bygone’s far-flung lands

Time winks and weeps where wonder thunders beneath our skin
No wish or want can keep at bay the future closing in
Where all the while new day beguiles with new moments released
Like quilt patches in Bygone’s counterpane, each one is pieced

Time winks and weeps and flies and tries to fit us with new shoes
That life insists upon and no one is ready to choose
(How in the whirl of little boys and girls did I become
A strange, yet splitting image of a version of ‘me mum’) (my mom)

Time winks and weeps and flies and leaps, an agile acrobat
That balances on heartstrings and bows as he tips his hat
While we gather our bearings with a trembling chin held high
Bracing Ourselves for love’s next round of hello and good-bye

…while oceanic tempests surge and crash on shores unseen
While we gaze in amazement at where summer’s isle had been
While time winks, weeps, and flies and leaps across echo-glossed bars
While we brush summer from our cheeks in a blur of salt-stars

© Janet Martin


Grand-sonny- 1st day of SK!💖






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