Blushing Birthplace

But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.
 Ps.59:16

For today’s prompt, take a word or two invented by William Shakespeare, make it the title of your poem, and write your poem. Click here for a link to some words coined by Shakespeare, who was baptized on this date in 1564. If the link doesn’t work, here are a few: advertising, bloodstained, critic, dwindle, eyeball, hobnob, luggage, radiance, and zany. He invented more than 1,700!

Dark dwindles from lintels supporting space

As colors of daylight polish the sky

Where we bear witness to God's gift of grace

Stunning the ages with Time's newborn cry

Out on that line sealing heaven to earth

Hope's newness blushes, God brushes the air

With celebration, ah, hail the glad birth

Into this cradle of dirt, hurt, despair

...Mercy's allotment metes from dark, daylight

Who but our God can move midnight this way?

Dawn's birthplace blushes as His love ignites

Time's newborn offspring; we call it Today

Janet Martin