Glory-glimpse...

 The final two-for-Tuesday prompt in April @Poetics Aside poem-a-day challenge is always: 

Write a love poem. Write an anti-love poem

Love roars through us like thunder; beauty and beast undeterred

It steals our breath with wonder and the hunger of mere word

It makes us happy, oh so happy, whispered from the heart

It makes us sad, so sad when we are far, too far apart

Love runs through us like roses; fragile petal loveliness

It pricks us to the quick with thorns of selfish thoughtlessness

It fills our gaze with sheer amazement; spills in laughter-gold

It startles us with sorrow when its vim turns dim and cold

Love slips through us; a smile-sigh-sacrifice miracle wrought

A ripple of redemption for all things that life is not

The very mention of its gift delights dust’s mortal clod

And makes us humbly thankful for its glory-glimpse of God

© Janet Martin

Ah Me, How Sweet Is Spring!

PAD Challenge day 25: The final two-for-Tuesday prompt in April @Poetics Aside poem-a-day challenge is always: 

Write a love poem. Write an anti-love poem

 Ah, always without beck and bid

You come with purple flower-sheen

And thrum in grasses, giddy-green

Where long the clasp of Jack Frost hid

Your finest songs in silent sod

…like fractured harp-string healed by God

With detail-oriented touch

You fringe fence lines with daffodils

And fling your autograph to hills

In ink of hyacinth and such

Your Casanova-colored gaze

The coldest of rivals betrays

The idle cares that once we nursed

Are borne away on bloom-breathed breeze

Above spring’s heaven-tinted leas

The heart with harp-song is immersed

And earth is like a maiden’s smiles

Where Romeo’s ardor beguiles

 Ah, always, always, you return

And bring with you spring’s ageless joys

The world laughs, filled with girls and boys

Eager to drink from Time’s tipped urn

Where kiss of sun and mist of rain

Makes everything old, young again

© Janet Martin

A Blue Look At Love

PAD Challenge day 25: The final two-for-Tuesday prompt in April @Poetics Aside poem-a-day challenge is always: 

Write a love poem. Write an anti-love poem

Sometimes I hate you, Love

The way you leave me blue

And render me inept to prove

The magnitude of you

The greatest joy of you

Prepares my deepest woe

And sometimes I am torn in two

Betwixt your high and low

Sometimes I hate your touch

A knife with double-edge

I never did care for pain much

But without it 

You're dead

© Janet Martin

Invisible Impetus

Wow, what a lot of Common Task awaits my attention today.

Good thing there's more to it then mere scrub, dig, sweep, polish etc.

Here's to the Lamplighter of the soul!

It’s not so much

The thing we do,

The hard climb up,

The quick descent

Nor is it the

Heart-bits we rue

Scattered across

The way time went

It’s not so much

This have and hold,

The growing old

With push and shove

It’s not so much

What we enfold

As the impetus of it:

Love

© Janet Martin

PAD Challenge day 25: The final two-for-Tuesday prompt in April @Poetics Aside poem-a-day challenge is always: 

Write a love poem. 

Write an anti-love poem