Ink-scapes

Can ink preserve with twist and curve these hours slipping fast?

And can a pen restore again pressed pictures of the past?

We cannot quell the tick-tock swell surging from here to there

Though we may yearn for the return of days that seemed so fair

With ink we grasp and clasp the gasp that shapes Time’s centuries

As echoes waft from thought to jot to ink-shaped memories

Can ink retain the soul-sweet strain of Saturdays in March?

Before the air lowers its stair from midnight’s ether arch

To fold its art into the heart where now we scan the deep

Seeking to save from yester-grave a rare remnant to keep

And can a quill with want and will and bits of poetry

Secure in word a moment stirred by ink-shaped memory?

…of muffin-morn and hope re-born in ordinary things

Of mint-tea noon and dusk full moon and wealth too plain for kings

Of scolding, holding, duty’s beauty filling to the brim

Our little cup that we hold up in gratitude to Him

Can ink preserve with twist and curve love’s tender agony?

And can a quill its essence spill in ink-shaped memory

© Janet Martin

This day is turning into a memory way too fast!

 We have a tradition at our house: Saturday muffins...

Today’s Muffins; Banana-Cranberry and Chipit.

3 bananas mashed

1 egg

¾ cup brown sugar

1/3 cup oil or melted butter

1 tbsp strong coffee

Mix and add

11/2 cups flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. baking powder

½ tsp. salt (I always skip the salt)

½ cup chocolate chips

½ cup dried cranberries

Bake at 350 approx. 15 min.