We Gather...We Let Go (two-for-two-Tues.)

Poetics Aside Two-for-two Tuesdays:

1. Write a gathering poem.
2. Write a letting go poem.

We Gather…

They filter through our being

We gather in their wake

Our portion of their rendering

Fond memories to make

Ephemeral allotment

Yet surging through our grasp

We gather in their aftermath

Fond memories to clasp

Invisible out-pouring

Above, around, beneath

We gather from life’s moment-spring

Fond memories to keep

© Janet Martin

We Let Go

The tree must relinquish its grandeur

The bloom must surrender its mirth

The ravishing splendor of nature

Soon returns back to the earth

The child must let go of its mother

The mother must release her ‘dears’

For love is a double-edge wonder

Of beautiful laughter and tears

…for just as the wake of moments

Renders love’s gifts in its flow

Its surge is a tender-sweet torment

Of holding and letting go

© Janet Martin