Moment-sum Momentum or Pleasure of Enough

I linger intentionally these days;

days that time flies through!

'oops! Sorry gramma!'

He kissed Baby Jesus and said 'nap' and put Him back to His mommy😘😍

...suddenly the momentum of moment-sums soft-rouse

A kinship with November’s sparser sweeps...

 and barren boughs...

I linger more; I cannot bear to hurry you because

You slip through hearts and fingers like autumn’s dying applause

Of wind-strummed leaf and harvest’s remnant sheaf, frost-brittle where

Not long ago you frolicked on spring meadows, green and fair

…and trembled in bud-bowers full of flowers to unfold

You tickled us with hours while turning the new year old

You leaped from fallow furrows, clothed earth in a gleaming gown

Before we sheared each field like sheep, and begged of you, ‘slow down’

Sometimes we mourn the way you steal the seasons you beget

Yet in your age-old ways you heal the very wounds you let

With rise and fall and ebb and flow of morn to eventide

You tame once hurried footsteps; bid us to regard each stride

…and so I linger more, while you run fearless fingers through

The tatters of a sigh, an autumn sky deep, denim-blue

Where suddenly the momentum of moment-sums soft-rouse

A kinship with November’s sparser sweeps and barren boughs

Dear Father Time, each season awes us with so much to love

And so I slow my pace to taste The Pleasure of Enough

And linger more to look and feel and learn what you would teach 

Before moment-momentum melds to reels beyond my reach

© Janet Martin

You leaped from fallow furrows, clothed earth in a gleaming gown

Before we sheared each field like sheep, and begged of you, ‘slow down’...

Our neighbor's dog is our dog too esp. when it comes to treats!

 He knows if he waits long enough

Mrs. Janet will, without fail, find a treat for him😅😂💓

and he is always eager to give me a big, wet, smelly farm-dog kiss of appreciation

(if I let him😝)