Of Life's Simple Things

 A collage of simple-thing blessings in my right-here-right-now: autumn snagged on the carpet, foot-prints in the snow, birdies at the feeder, dripping tap means running water,ice-ensconced buds,winter-laced trees,lotsa laundry means busy blessing of family...
How many ‘simple-thing-blessings’ surprise you right where you are!?

Ah, patriarch of beauty

What joy your bearing brings

You kiss dullness of duty's face

With this; life’s simple things

Oh, stranger to vain-glory

You tip the jars of grace

And trim the barren winter tree

With threads of gilded lace

The gavel of your judgement

Is never harsh or hard

You drench new dawn with light of day

And pin the dusk with stars

Your moments none can gather

Or ever quite appease

And yet they fill life’s larder, love

With tender memories

The memories we garner

Are woven with the strings

Falling from mercy’s fingertips

In gentle, simple things

…of twinkle spilled in laughter

Of crinkled, autumn tress

Of snowflake sprinkled from a sky

Foreign to ugliness

…of silver-studded sorrows

Of beggar-blooded joys

Of hope in each tomorrow, love

Where God His will employs

Oh, patriarch of beauty

On time’s four-season wings

You cheer our humble here-and-now

With this; life’s simple things

© Janet Martin