Showing posts with label rain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rain. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Rain Rhapsody

 

I was going to mow lawn this afternoon but
it began to rain...h-m-m. What to do?!!
Some rare extra-poem time, maybe?
to celebrate what we have been watching/praying for
in the weather forecast for weeks!!!


Thank-you, gracious Heavenly Father!


This afternoon the rain plays like a piano and violin-serenade

I like the rain
The way the lane
Is dappled with its drops
The way its runnels slip and drip
And run and plip and plop

I like the way it puddles in
The double-chins of earth
And how we sense
In nature’s thirst quencher
Immense rebirth

I like the glimmer on the grass
The shimmer of a sheaf
Forlorn, before
The splish and splash
Restored the drooping leaf

I like the swooshing sound, that hisses
Beneath traffic rush
The stinging pelt,
The velvet kisses
Whisp’ring hush, hush, hush

I like the rain
Silver-note strains
That lilt and laugh and glide
And wash the world
With hymns unfurled
On town and countryside

...and when they halt
I like the way earth's vault,
is filled with praise
Of feathered throng song exalting
The kind Creator's ways 

© Janet Martin

Imagine if God didn't send rain until all people who have sinned against Him repent?!

From 1 Kings 8:35-36 (From Solomon's prayer of dedication)

“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain 
because your people have sinned against you, 
and when they pray toward this place and give praise to your name
 and turn from their sin because you have afflicted them, 
36 then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. 
Teach them the right way to live, 
and send rain on the land you gave your people for an inheritance.





Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Happiness of Rain

 Last week's little rainfall was lapped up by the sun in no time flat

so once again we are singing praises for a much needed rain!


Earth laughs; from laden heavens spills the happiness of rain
It splashes into flower cups and dances on the lane
It kisses thirsty gardens, and douses the dusty street
And draws a puddle world of bliss for children in bare feet
As thirsty hills and fields are drenched and quenched; the robin sings
With the contagious happiness of rain-drop dazzled things

© Janet Martin



Friday, October 15, 2021

Autumn's Rainy Goodnight Serenade

 'Simple and quite ordinary but sometimes utterly stunning.' 

from Brenda @ It's a Beautiful Life


The above comment from today's post at Brenda's blog
 aroused a wild desire to draw from the simple and quite ordinary evening, something
(okay, maybe this isn't utterly stunning) 
but something to remember it by...
the beauty of simple things~








The harmony of supper-hour traffic homeward bound through autumn rain evokes a sweet and sentimental tug where gleaming decoupage of leaves, like lamplight on the ground enchants workaday weariness with something like a hug

The lowering of lullabies as dusk begins to fold autumnal red and gold into umbral, blue-gray manteau
Seems to reflect idyllic scenes from simpler days of old as daylight slips and drips into frameworks of long ago

Raindrop tap-dancers dapple driveway, street and promenade, punctuating farewell with silver exclamation tears while we delight in Autumn’s Rainy Goodnight Serenade until the world above and all around us disappears

© Janet Martin

or this...

The harmony of supper-hour traffic homeward bound 
through autumn rain evokes a sweet and sentimental tug 
where gleaming decoupage of leaves, like lamplight on the ground 
enchants workaday weariness with something like a hug

The lowering of lullabies as dusk begins to fold 
autumnal red and gold into umbral, blue-gray manteau
Seems to reflect idyllic scenes from simpler days of old 
as daylight slips and drips into frameworks of long ago

Raindrop tap-dancers dapple driveway, street and promenade,
punctuating farewell with silver exclamation tears
while we delight in Autumn’s Rainy Goodnight Serenade 
until the world above and all around us disappears

© Janet Martin





Thursday, September 23, 2021

Acknowledgement of Fall's Wild and Wet Debut



The first day of fall flew through floodgates flung wide...


The second day is offering a brief breather before round two...







Fall flew through floodgates flung ajar
It flailed the crinkled countryside
And wailed at every bolstered door
That just the day before stood wide

Fall’s entrance drenched earth’s sanguine bars
September’s summer embers doused
No quixotic, poetic stars
In sighs by blue-eyed skies aroused

Fall roared like an enraged tigress  
Or like a savage beast set free
It tore at nature’s tousled tress
With tireless ferocity

Fall made its entrance, wet and wild
As if somehow a mild debut
Of sun-kisses on summer’s child
Would have been far too Déjà vu


© Janet Martin






Sunday, August 1, 2021

Ultimate Joy


Today we are have a family reunion/ 90th birthday party for my husband's mother.
It looks like there is the potential for a lot of rain to fall in that time frame.
How often in life do we pray for sun but rain is sent instead?
Yet, if we pray 'Thy will be done' He helps us, dry or wet!









My kiddos that come during the week LOVE a good rain-shower
because it always brings sweet splashing puddles.
This week it poured while toddler wailed and tugged my hand because she wanted to play outside.
But the thunder rolled and lightning flashed and Janet did not relent.
Little One, in the moment, did not understand why. 
A bit like us toddlers sometimes, with our Heavenly Father, isn't it?

Heavenly Father, help us to remember You know best!
Help us to...
 'grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
 To him be glory both now and forever!
 Amen.
2 Peter 3:18

...and not to throw toddler-tantrums when we don't get
what we want when we want it!


We pray for sunshine but if rain is Thy reply
Lord, help us to give thanks and not to fret with futile ‘why’

We pray that we would be a lamp your love shines through
Reflecting, in humility, the love we have for You

Then, whether loss or gain, wish granted or denied
We pray dear Lord, in sun or rain, You will be glorified

We pray for grace to meet the day with hearts at rest
As our joy is made complete in knowing You know best

© Janet Martin

A blessed day of rest and worship
to you and yours!
Oh! and Happy August💕




The author of this hymn is living testimony of its words
Here is a link to her story.

Wednesday, June 10, 2020

June Morning After Rain...


 He provides rain for the earth; 
he sends water on the countryside.
Job 5:10





Earth, parched by heat guzzles the healing rain
Hope gleams with grace; it dazzles like a chain
Of diamonds on the outstretched arms of trees
It pearls in petal-shells of peonies

Hills roll like green waves rushing from our doors
Horizons blur on turquoise-misted shores
Breeze billows, willow-wisps whisper and sigh
And toss a hymn of gladness to the sky

And we, often bereft of eloquence
Revel in renewed wonder’s reverence
As like a bud a brand new day unfolds
And flowers on a stem God’s mercy holds
 

© Janet Martin




Saturday, May 16, 2020

Unfurling Right Before Our Eyes


 Ask rain from the LORD at the time of the spring rain-- 
The LORD who makes the storm clouds;
 And He will give them showers of rain, vegetation in the field to each man.
Zach.10:1 NASB

Someone must have asked the Lord for a lot of rain.
today we have a sunny one before forecast of three more days of rain!

Unfurling right before our eyes
A little glimpse of paradise
As earth is adorned once again
In shades spawned from a warm spring rain

Where we are privy to a sight
Untarnished by the heat and blight
That, since the curse at Adam’s fall
Sin’s bane irks and afflicts us all

Not one immune to misery
Or if we ask, God’s sympathy
Where we witness firsthand, a prize
Unfurling right before our eyes

Across earth’s undulating sod
Aha, we sense the hand of God
Unfurling right before our eyes
A little glimpse of paradise

A symbol of His faithfulness
He grants to every one of us
This treasure, mist and rain-drop pearled
Before our very eyes unfurled

© Janet Martin

Thursday, October 31, 2019

Autumn Late-day Rain-rhapsody


 October's exit is wild and windy!!!
Hold on to your hat!




Wrote this poem while cooking supper as I watched eventide roll/blow in!

Cornstalk-candelabras etched 
on backdrops of grey crepe
Maple-leaf mosaics pressed 
into fall’s grand escape
Rush of silver runnels hiss 
beneath wheels homeward bound
Wind wears holes through woodland’s 
whispers falling to the ground

Autumn's petal-pandemonium
 holds strange allure
Suddenly we want to join them 
on their farewell tour
Early dark is seeping in like 
high-tide, splash by splash
Freeways sparkle like 
a gold and ruby rhinestone sash

Simple supper smells like 
something special (and it is)
Happiness simmers in pots 
and pan-fried promises
Home, however humble feels 
imperfectly complete
Meek prayers burst with pity 
for the pauper on the street

Oft, how oft our eyes are drawn 
to what is fading fast
Like first light that births each dawn 
begins to shape the past
Like the melody that drips 
from seas without a shore
Like the sting of salty stars 
that slip and are no more

© Janet Martin

(I could not post a what's-for-supper blog last Thursday due to helping at a funeral all day)

 This Thursday-what's-for-supper post is one of those non-recipe meals...
brown your beef, add your pick of veggies
(tonight's veggies, green peppers, parsley, garlic, red and white onion)
cook till veggies are almost tender then add tomato-sauce. (I use the one I linked to)
Heat till bubbly then serve on steamed thinly sliced cabbage instead of spaghetti! yummy.