June Jingle or Anticipation Undone

 Photos directly below from Gingko Footprints Peony Gardens

We have passed the halfway mark of June...already?!! 

Time for a little June jingle as we realize

that what we long anticipated is well underway;

That twinkle in time's eye after winter is past before it begins again! 

That first perennial-garden burst of columbine-lupine-iris-peony pleasure

before lilies-roses-phlox-delphinium-daisy delight

before dahlia-aster-sunflower-sedum...well, you get the idea 😊💖 

Below,  my first roses in many years!

Lupine longing is lavished!

Columbine craving contented...

First foxglove fantasy fulfilled! 

(a first for me in all my years of flower-gardening!

It may not look like much but it is the fruit of much perseverance and patience!!😅)

Anticipation lowers bars where once in winter’s world of stars

We lingered over dreamy hues of verdant greens and welkin blues

And visions of a garden walk midst peony and hollyhock

And benches where we would recline beneath plumes of wisteria vine

Anticipation realized is Pleasure, slowly, sweetly prized

In the luxury of a nose buried in summer’s first red rose

In lounging with tea and a book in a breeze-serenaded nook

Or where perennial bowers bend with the return of flower-friends

Anticipation turned to June is a green-giddy afternoon

Green pastures on yon hillside spread; green-leaf percussion overhead

Green ambience drenching the dell where once lackluster shadows fell

Before each stark, dark barren limb throbbed with nature’s green-whispered hymn

Anticipation kindles cheer for favours lent, year after year

For so much beauty to behold as hours, like flowers unfold

For laundry-lines where clean clothes waltz, for children turning somersaults

Beneath lofty vaults of soft sky tinted with twilight’s lullaby

Anticipation comforts souls where happiness is full of holes

Where joy would lose its wooing spark where dreams oft fall shy of their mark

But June is always right on time and full of delight’s seasoned chime

And colours of summer begun and Anticipation undone

© Janet Martin

Anticipation of long summer evenings...is Reality!!