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-rouseA kinship with November’s sparser sweeps... and barren boughs... I linger more; I cannot bear to hurry you becauseYou slip through hearts and fingers like autumn’s dying applauseOf wind-strummed leaf and harvest’s remnant sheaf, frost-brittle whereNot long ago you frolicked on spring meadows, green and fair …and trembled in bud-bowers full of flowers to unfoldYou tickled us with hours while turning the new year oldYou leaped from fallow furrows, clothed earth in a gleaming gownBefore we sheared each field like sheep, and begged of you, ‘slow down’ Sometimes we mourn the way you steal the seasons you begetYet in your age-old ways you heal the very wounds you letWith rise and fall and ebb and flow of morn to eventideYou tame once hurried footsteps; bid us to regard each stride …and so I linger more, while you run fearless fingers throughThe tatters of a sigh, an autumn sky deep, denim-blueWhere suddenly the momentum of moment-sums soft-rouseA kinship with November’s sparser sweeps and barren boughs Dear Father Time, each season awes us with so much to loveAnd so I slow my pace to taste The Pleasure of EnoughAnd 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 gownBefore 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 enoughMrs. 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😝)