Showing posts with label viewpoints. Show all posts
Showing posts with label viewpoints. Show all posts

Saturday, April 13, 2019

In Spite of Viewpoints and Points of View


 PAD Challenge day 13: For today’s prompt, write a view poem


"When I grow up I'm going to live in the countryside"
declared an ecstatic four-year-old, delighted with his point of view


Our views are shaped by what we see
What we are taught, or not
The dynamics of family
The status of our lot

The things we have, the things we lack
The wars we win and lose
What we believe, twixt white and black
The attitudes we choose

Where side by side the whole world wide
In all we see and do
More than city or countryside
Will shape our points of view

For all the differences twixt
Creed, culture, class and breed
Still keeps our flesh-and-blood-forms fixed
In universal need

…of food and water’s sustenance
Where Hunger carves its hole
Of love and respect’s reverence
To feed the heart and soul

© Janet Martin


Thursday, January 9, 2014

Of Vantage and View-points





What do you see, bird in the tree?
Flitting freely from limb to limb
Or you, as you look back at me
Judging appearances of skin

What do you see, dear girl of twelve?
The outside looking in won’t show
Heart-oceans where love steals my breath
In rushing, reeling over-flow

What do you see as you pass by?
Vague view-points from the street won’t tell
Of life here on the other side
...its glimpses of heaven or hell

What do you see? Our vantage-point
Renders and shapes our point of view
I wonder sometimes, would mine change
If I was standing where you do…

© Janet Martin

School buses are up and running today! I saw Victoria double-check to see if I was at my usual waiting-spot inside the kitchen window and then, as she waved to me from the bus I suddenly wondered what her memory of this looks like…mine is the outline of a girl growing a little bigger every year; someday, like everything in life this too will disappear…

Sometimes, to change our point of view, God changes our view-point.