Showing posts with label card verse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label card verse. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

I Miss You Tonight



When the tall blue shadow
Of summer’s twilight
Sprawls 'neath the scrim of July’s lengthened day
And when it is swallowed
By misty-blue midnight
As history absorbs its ephemeral prey
When the dark like an ocean
Sweeps over the garden
Over the hills and the woodlot and dells
I hear the whisper
Of days unforgotten
Oh, how the echo of retrospect swells
And I miss you

When miles flaunt their far-ness
And memories their mercy
When I am torn by the powerful grip
Of longing and loving
Of wanting and waiting
And hating the moments that silently slip
Between farewell kisses
And last parting wishes
Between the cooling of lips on my cheek
I hold you close
Where nothing comes between us
Save for the tears as they silently speak
And I miss you

Below the dark edge of
The Far East horizon
Hovers the sun if the Lord wills its climb
Yonder the west
Waits to drink its returning
This is the force of intangible Time
As it swells in my being
In its giving and taking
A moment by moment discoursing of grace
I feel you near me
For love’s quiet Knowing
Wraps me in the beauty of memory’s embrace
But oh, I miss you

© Janet Martin~

It can be people, places, moments...
These are the things we miss in the beauty of memory's embrace~

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Merely Miles and Such...



My dear, they are merely miles
and such...
mountains,
oceans,
eons,
...nothing that prayer
cannot touch

Janet Martin

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Touching You~

I touch you with words
They are all that I have
For you are too far from me
Words in my thought
Words in my prayer
And words in my memory

I touch you with words
reluctant compromise
But oh, what a solace they bring
Words in a sonnet
Words in a poem
Echo of words...whispering

Janet Martin

Monday, March 19, 2012

Loving Proof~


Sometimes love's most tender offerings 
are nothing more than realizations
that the 'missing you' agony it brings
is the proof of its existence at all

Janet aka Mom

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

I Love You~


For all the things you never say…
…and could
I love you

For all the times you simply smile
Instead of argue
I love you

For all the reasons I can’t think of
For you to love me
I love you

Janet~

Friday, January 20, 2012

To a Loved One...


You are never far away
though miles separate
and life seems designed
to keep us apart
you are always near me
for I hold you close
in my thoughts
and my heart~

Janet