Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Summer Getaway...







Brush of breezes tickles treetops
Rush of ripples sighs
Ruffling sheen of silver-green
Against azure skies

Sunbeam-frazzled stars bedazzle
Diamond-studded lake
Shriek of gull and children lull
Dreamers half-awake

Catch of phrases, laughing faces
Sand between tanned toes
Sailors, surfers, strollers, loafers
Sea-song ebbs and flows

Pages linger between fingers
Book-worlds bob and blur
Beach umbrellas bloom, reds, yellas,
Waves-swells melt and slur

Beauty teases, duty eases
Its grip on today
Clocks forgiven, dock-end heaven
Summer getaway

© Janet Martin









Saturday, July 24, 2021

After-Holiday Happiness

 


I scribbled this one on the way home today as I realized our comments
breaking little stretches of silence 
were either retrospect or looking ahead...


A toss-up between retrospect
And wondering what will be
A tug twixt heart-string dialect
And half-penned poetry

A futile fight, of holding tight
And gently letting go
Reeling from the brunt of delight
In drifts of echo-snow

…and sensing Time's searing caress
No bargain can defeat
After-holiday happiness
Is always bittersweet

© Janet Martin









Saturday, July 17, 2021

Summer Siesta

 






A bit of sun and sand and sea

And being lulled by lap of lake

And chilling out with family

A bit of memories to make

In the kind company of love

And laughter’s sweet and sanguine wage

And losing count of places lived

Vicariously in turn of page

And coffees sipped unhurriedly

And vines designed by scrabble-tiles

And walks without a destiny

Along the beach, through wooded isles

A bit of gently losing touch

A ‘sit’ at the end of the dock

A lot of BBQ and such

And never looking at a clock

And ever being mindful of

The changes that each year imparts

And cherishing life’s gifts of love

And thanking God with humble hearts

 

© Janet Martin


Sea you in a week or two😎😊! 





Saturday, July 21, 2018

Off For An Extended Coffee-break!


 R&R Time!
Sea you soon😊




(Hoping for less opportunity for shots like these this year!)
Trying to be optimistic in spite of this!

 Hiking
And biking
Ignoring the clock
Reading
And writing
Coffee on the dock
Barbecue,
Me and you
Ah, holidays
Lake-lull
And sea-gull
And thanks-full
Of praise

Canoeing,
And swimming
And soaking up rest
Time out
With family
Is life and love's best
Laughter
And after
This chapter is penned
Memory-
Keepsakes
That never end


© Janet Martin


Friday, January 26, 2018

Dusk-Getaway...



After the last kiddos were gone I had a mini-getaway on the deck
where dusk was tucking the day with a soft pink-gray shawl...

 

Let me linger for a little
With my face glued to the sky
Daylight is a silver circle
Soon soft-kissed with lullaby

Take me where the blue air deepens
Until the world disappears
In a sea scattered with sequins
And the throb of yester-years

Darling, let’s forget to hurry
Take a twilit holiday
Where bare fields and trees turn blurry
Then soft, softly fade away

© Janet Martin




Monday, February 2, 2015

World-wide Holiday

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I wish the world could take a snow-day
Hang a shingle on its door
Saying, ‘closed for business; sorry’
Let rapscallion mistrals roar

We would pour our second-coffees
Until sunset; each highway
Like a ghost town on the prairie
Because it’s a world snow-day

Nobody would need a doctor
Nobody would go away
Twenty-four heaven-sweet hours
On this world-wide holiday

Maybe then we would remember
What too often we forget
As we hasten through another
Year; work-worry-want roulette

There would be no hurry-scurry
No one would be running late
No horn-honking freeway flurry
Only love’s slow-laughing gait

…and the sound of happy silence
Spilling soft like summer rain
If the whole world wore a shingle,
‘Closed for business, try again’

© Janet Martin

...on the up-side, Wiarton Willie did NOT see his shadow, forecasting an early spring;-)
 Shubenacadie Sam heads from his den at the wildlife park in Shubenacadie, N.S. on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011. (ANDREW VAUGHAN/THE CANADIAN PRESS)