Farewell July and Hello August

 Hello all, and Happy August!

After a week away, yesterday was a bit of a blur

trying to decide what to tackle first; laundry-mountain or garden jungle!!

Yesterday was sunny but cool, kindling an intoxicating eagerness for 

back-to-work! such wonderful work, summer is!

My sister texted me while I was shelling peas last night ...

or I might have missed July's farewell moon...

Finches bicker, green leaves flicker where sunbeams and shadows play

Where each hour is a flower that unfolds then fades away

And its petal is the mettle of echo-medleys that waft

A succession of impressions etched on Bygone’s breadth, breath-soft,

July marches through blue arches; boundless awning overhead

Vaulted over corn-wheat-clover fields, like quilts that need no thread

Speechless wonder rolls like thunder through heart and soul, awed, agape

While man gazes God amazes us with summer’s sanguine cape

Garden treasure kindles pleasure unlike any in the world

Spring-time planting now is granting toil and mercy’s fruit unfurled

Earth’s effulgence births indulgence; beauty bids duty to drink

Pause and savor awe’s full flavor-burst of gold, purple and pink

July leaves us; farewell grieves us but August rekindles smiles

It bewitches us where ditches have become wildflower-isles

Milkweed plumage, chamomile, sage, Queen Ann’s Lace and chicory

Cricket-choir catches fire we can hear but cannot see

Hello August, welcome, dew-dust dazzled, frazzled summer-crown

Sultry, sunny, sweet as honey-suckle run wild and wind-blown

Crowded beaches, juice of peaches drips from lip-smacking yes-yes!

Rouses gladness from spent sadness; hello August happiness

© Janet Martin

A little glimpse of last week...

at a lakeside cottage

Welcome August!