Showing posts with label college. Show all posts
Showing posts with label college. Show all posts

Sunday, September 4, 2016

There They Go!




 Mel's new digs!

There they go
…to nooks
And crooks
With books
Where walls
And halls of
Independence
Taste better
Than anything
Mom cooks

...for now :)

© Janet Martin

Saturday, September 3, 2016

Bracing For Fall or Of Summer Spent



 Is there any emptier feeling in the home than when a child moves out for school?
Hugs all around to parents who suddenly find their arms aching for a Summer that is no more...



What pangs do autumn’s hearts torment
With love’s demands when hands are stripped
And trees are lamp-posts, yellow-dipped
And primed for summer-less lament

Ah, life is cursed with discontent
And hollow hurt of letting go
While mouths make promises we know
Will not reimburse summer spent

…so we stand tall and say hello
To newcomers in this Fall place
Of arms still aching to embrace
What time insists on weaning…oh,

The air is like a map we trace
Back to That Shangri-La before
We staggered beneath the loud roar
Of empty room and packed suitcase


What pangs do autumn’s hearts torment
With love’s demands when hands are stripped
And lands are unkempt, yellow-dipped
And primed for Time's timeless lament

© Janet Martin

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Of Courage, College and Carrying On...







We speak to them of courage and we hope within its speech
We find the very thing that we are striving thus to teach
Life’s laughter and lament, love’s learning-curves amalgamate
Within the eye; hello-good-bye; time never bars its gate

As daughters become us and we stare long at our skin
And wonder who we are; the image not the girl within
Where dying ways that life inflicts upon our gaze reflects
The nature of all nature and the climax of all flesh

Our lips, once filled with answers suddenly are dumb and numb
While merry moment-dancers seem to disregard the sum
Of all that they become as we peruse their aftermath
Where tragedy and triumph meld in glimmers on dusk’s path

Still, onward, ever onward, we commence again, again
The learning is not over until God declares, Amen
And so we speak of courage and we hope within its speech
To find the very thing that we are striving thus to teach

© Janet Martin

Our pastor, Dale Ward, encouraged students to take this verse with them as they return to school...
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go." Joshua 1:9


From Tennyson's Tears, Idle Tears...

 Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather in the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more...




Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Holding You.......


I prayed for you today, my dear
For in my prayer God brings you near
Though days and miles are in between
To God the distance is unseen
And so when I am missing you
There is one thing that I can do
I ask God to keep you in His care
For I can touch you in a prayer

~Janet~