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 realizethat 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 pleasurebefore lilies-roses-phlox-delphinium-daisy delightbefore 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 starsWe lingered over dreamy hues of verdant greens and welkin bluesAnd visions of a garden walk midst peony and hollyhockAnd benches where we would recline beneath plumes of wisteria vine Anticipation realized is Pleasure, slowly, sweetly prizedIn the luxury of a nose buried in summer’s first red roseIn lounging with tea and a book in a breeze-serenaded nookOr where perennial bowers bend with the return of flower-friends Anticipation turned to June is a green-giddy afternoonGreen pastures on yon hillside spread; green-leaf percussion overheadGreen ambience drenching the dell where once lackluster shadows fellBefore each stark, dark barren limb throbbed with nature’s green-whispered hymn Anticipation kindles cheer for favours lent, year after yearFor so much beauty to behold as hours, like flowers unfoldFor laundry-lines where clean clothes waltz, for children turning somersaultsBeneath lofty vaults of soft sky tinted with twilight’s lullaby Anticipation comforts souls where happiness is full of holesWhere joy would lose its wooing spark where dreams oft fall shy of their markBut June is always right on time and full of delight’s seasoned chimeAnd colours of summer begun and Anticipation undone © Janet Martin Anticipation of long summer evenings...is Reality!!