The best month,
filling my heart to the brink every year
with roses and expectation.
Days growing brighter
and longer.
Pink ramblers bloom fresh
like small perfect finite hopes.
Barely summer
yet the shining day has almost peaked.
The duck egg sky grows a little paler
each receding night.
We are hurtling towards midsummer glory
without any brakes.
The best time
but time never lasts.
J.S.Watts is a poet and novelist whose writing appears in publications in Britain and abroad and has been broadcast on BBC and Independent Radio. She has published seven books: two poetry collections, "Cats and Other Myths" and “ Years Ago You Coloured Me”, plus multi-award nominated SF poetry pamphlet, "Songs of Steelyard Sue” (Lapwing Publications) and her most recent pamphlet, “The Submerged Sea” (Dempsey & Windle), also three novels, "A Darker Moon” - dark literary fantasy, and “Witchlight” and “Old Light" - paranormal (Vagabondage Press).See www.jswatts.co.uk for further details.