Thursday, November 3, 2011
Good-bye
It’s sort of like the cold blue wind
Moaning outside my door
It’s sort of like the ocean waves
Sweeping an empty shore
It’s sort of like a bit of dirt
Bothering my eye
It’s sort of like a great big hurt
Telling you good-bye
J~
http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides/poetry-prompts/2011-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-3
Candle-light
How sadly the wind is weeping
How empty the woodlands sigh
How brightly the star is gleaming
Like tinsel in the sky
How gently thoughts of you waken
How deeply they grip the heart
How soon a moment is taken
In breaths of timeless art
How quickly a year is over
A flicker, a chant, a sigh
A soul-mate, rebel, a lover
A twinkle in the eye
How withered the blooms are lying
How little is summer's day
How soon we would begin dying
Should Hope and Love decay
How still is the night without you
How dark, the fleet-footed day
How brightly the thoughts about you
Return to light my way
J~
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Melissa's Art...and Victoria
November's Madrigal
The clouds are shaggy-gray tonight
A shroud across the moon
But I can hear a song in spite
Of Autumn’s barren room
The purple-blue of twilight’s brow
Its stealthy fingertips
Speak silently of things like snow
As dark and seamless lips
Swallow the far and fading sigh
Of daylight waning in the sky
The regimental symmetry
Of maple, stripped and bare
Arouses still-life imag’ry
Of sorrow ‘gainst the air
But it is not a hopeless grief
That grips the quiet heart
As testaments of ragged leaf
Sustain in works of art
A Surety of unseen things
Beyond the Death which autumn brings
The sentimental memories
The ache of days gone by
The provenance of melodies
The tear-note in the eye
Are love’s impressions on a wall
Of whispered seasons past
The paintings in a hallowed hall
Where not one slight is cast
As we behold the offerings
Of summer, autumn, winter, spring
Janet Martin
If Life Hands You Lemons...or Limes
Accolades and words of boast
are not testimonies sub-lime
to prove the things we love the most;
but how we spend our time
I thought of you the other day
And how you used to kiss me
Before you turned and walked away
Limes always do this to me
If life hands you its lemons
Then make some lemonade
If it hands you limes instead
Drizzle it on bean-salad
(it really is delicious on bean salad)
Do not keep score of failures
It is a waste of time
Sometimes life is the gravy
And sometimes salt and lime
Janet~
http://margoroby.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/a-lime-is-a-lime-or-is-it-tuesday-tryouts/
The Proof
Love One Another
Let me begin at the heart of you
Lest in my selfish haste
I sadly should miss the part of you
That forms love’s ever-best
Is there to love a beginning or end?
I have not found it so
Love cannot choose its course, my friend
Or where its tides may flow
I thought a kiss was love’s signature
But as I held you near
The rush of the past, present and future
Brushed my cheek in your tear
Affection is tender and beautiful
Love, a double-edged ache
All of life’s goodness, pleasure and grief
Tremble within its wake
Love is not glamorous, easy or grand
Nor a thing given in part
It is not something we hold in our hand
But something we are from the heart
Janet Martin
http://carryontuesdayprompt.blogspot.com/2011/10/carry-on-tuesday-129.html
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Tomorrow...
http://www.writersdigest.com/
Tomorrow I will tackle
Those jobs around the yard
Load up the old wheel-barrow
With leaves, tattered and tired
I’ll rinse off all the shovels
The shears, edger and hoes
Stack the tomato cages
In neat and tidy rows
Tomorrow I'll clean windows
And fix the broken door
I'll tidy up the kitchen
And scrub my dirty floor
I'll bake the way I used to
Before life's craziness
I'll split the wood for kindling
And clean up every mess
Tomorrow I will wander
Beneath skies, cold and blue
And wish that I could squander
Another hour with you
The cold seems so much colder
And summer far behind
And I feel so much older
Without you on my mind
Tomorrow I will listen
To autumns parting hymn
A madrigal of wisdom
Left upon the limb
Tomorrow I’ll be willing
To fight the good old fight
But time is swift and fleeting
That’s why today I write
Janet Martin
Actually, I feel this is a little rough shod, but it all I could muster
After an exceptionally crazy day!
Prompt; Procrastination...that was easy. I took my mental 'to-do' list:)
Written for November's poem a day challenge.