Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Not Finished Yet...





Sometimes when looking back we think
We want what time has mimed to naught
Save in the pitter-patter of
Love tiptoeing across our thought

Sometimes when looking back we hear
What we think are the good, old days
And we allow love’s bitty tear
To cheer us with its good, old ways

Sometimes when looking back we feel
The touch of time, surreal and keen
This thing that heals can cut the heart
With nothing but the what-has-been

Sometimes when looking back we chase
A place that no longer exists
And overlook rainbows of grace
Spiraling where today untwists

Sometimes when looking back we see
Scenes that no hand can resurrect
And suddenly the heart is stirred
To salvage days not finished yet

© Janet Martin

In a week from today I will celebrate the half-century mark if time tarries, so
I think that entitles me to a teeny-weeny bit of looking back
if simply to remind me of God's love and faithfulness!

Ah, Lovely May



 I didn't get my fill of May writing, 
partly due to the fact that every May day was filled with May-ways to enjoy...
mostly work with a little play;-)
 May Days Collage...It's a little how a mind feels when looking back!


Ah, lovely May, your artist’s tray
Spills daffodil and lilac plume
Then scatters in their petal-wake
Many, oh many a budded bloom

Ah, lovely May, your minstrels play
Time’s greenest green and bluest blue
But then your music fades away
While we are busy loving you

Ah lovely May, your comely way
Makes orchards blush and young love too
And everybody, young and old
Is gladdened by the kiss of you

Ah, lovely May, ah, holiday
From firesides and surly storm
You dance across fresh fields of grass
In flip-flop feet, sunny and warm

Ah lovely May of bloom-fringed path
You slip away far, far too soon
But always in your aftermath
You leave upon dawn's door-sill, June

© Janet Martin

My farewell song to May;))


Of Maybes That Still May Be



What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Helen Keller
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/helen_keller.html

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Helen Keller
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/helen_keller.html
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Helen Keller
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/helen_keller.html
I have only one small complaint about this May...
it was too quick, but the wonderful thing about the end of May is it always leads to
the beginning of...
 June!

The colors of the future, love
No naked eye can see
But Longing hopes forward to slopes
Flushed with what still may be

That Past is like a playground, love
Echoing Time’s demise
Hope longs toward unshapen more
With soft, parental sighs

The door to what may be may be
Quite other than we crave
Pray we do not long for so long
That we miss what we have

The future is filled with May Be
That past with Nevermore
But Present Opportunity
Is knocking at the door


© Janet Martin


Carpe Diem






This day is young where we embrace
God's grace soft-flung to time and space
And what we do with it will be
Forever part of history


This day is new to you and I
In spite of other days gone by
None ever held this day before
Its lilt soon spilt and sealed to yore


This day is chief, its little reign
Will, leaf by leaf unveil joy, pain,
Grief, laughter, like a flower tree
That blooms then fades on twilight’s lea


This day is It; our best intent
Was meant for This ere it is spent
Thus it behooves each one to pray
To seek God’s hand then seize this day

© Janet Martin

This is the day the Lord has made;
Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Ps.118:24

(a verse that reminds us,
no matter how often we hear it,
from Who and Why, this day)

Monday, May 30, 2016

Jesus Is Where It All Begins





For all the trying in the world
For all the sorrow of our sins
We cannot fix it on our own
Jesus is where all hope begins

For all the sacrifice we make
Still, still the devil jeers and grins
Where hunger weighs the heart with aches
Jesus is where all joy begins

How vain the void we try to fill
Ah, how inept the gain of things
Nothing, nothing can satisfy
Jesus is where all love begins

How sweet the comfort of His care
How full the forgiveness of sins
How close He comes to us through prayer
Jesus is where it all begins

© Janet Martin

"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Matt.11:28

Some Wonderful Jesus songs














This list could go on and on!