Celebration Poems

From Poetic Bloomings; Over the course of time, we have stretched the muses and minds of our extremely talented family of poets, with our prompts and forms, interviews and projects. So for this venture, Marie and I ask you to write a “Celebration” poem.   Celebrate your life, an anniversary, a birthday, an event… but do it in the form of a 10 X 10 poem (Ten lines times Ten words per line = 100 words – a century). Thus, we want you to write a Celebration in a Century (Celebration of the Century).

My Life-wish Celebration

I want to live so that when my Hour comes

I will not lie on a deathbed of sad regret

But peacefully then I will relinquish my final, farewell breath

Content to know that in life’s brief, mystic moment flow

I fully danced and freely dreamed and laughed and wept

Daring to fly with faith buoying me above fear’s crypt

So that when the last everlasting sleep steals over me

And sets me free from demons of doubt and want

I will surrender, reaching to Him with weary, ready arms

Satisfied to let go, surrendering softly to heaven’s eternal embrace

© Janet Martin

Celebrating US

We are a band driven by a common, luring thirst

Battling through highs and lows of feeling blessed and cursed

As we suffer blissfully the divine endowment of word vexation

Knowing at any moment we may be perplexed by temptation

In the curves of consonants joined perfectly with certain vowels

Dangling and taunting they whisper, falling from thought’s dripping jowls

As we stir soup or wander among children, women, men

Suddenly, the searing surge to grasp the frond of pen

Consumes our bearing and we cannot substitute or coldly mediate

With anything but written word; we are poets; we celebrate

© Janet Martin