On Moment-metered May and Must

PAD Challenge day 29: For today’s prompt, write a metric poem.

I love when life is a healthy balance of 'ought' and 'want'... all 'ought' is no fun, all 'want' is no good!

The thought of what I ought to do is tugging at my hand

The taunt of what I want to do is tugging at my heart

The place where dusk chased day away is bright-eyed once again

With May and Must and other love-entrusted works of art

Where tick-tock meter of the clock, since Time began will seal

The pictures tinctured with our touch, on Past’s elusive reel

Thus, between ‘ought’ and ‘want’ I wrest

Where voice of choice will soon attest

© Janet Martin  

Happy, healthy Saturday to you!

Heart-a-Tug

"I love you and don't be a stranger' I said as I hugged my daughter good-bye this morning 

after she was home for a two-day visit

 (its a little like trying to picture a flower you've never seen; certain of its loveliness but unable to grasp it)

Dear Daughter,

You won’t ever know how hard

Those heartstrings tug

As we are drawn apart

Or how the words ‘I love you’

Seems too small for worlds

Cradled deep in the heart

 …and you won’t ever understand

The tender depth that shapes

The tear, the year soft-flown

No, you won’t

Ever understand, my dear

Until you have 

a daughter of your own

                                                                       

© Janet Martin

What IS This Smell?!

PAD Challenge day 28: Write a smell poem

It’s the smell of yellow

In willow-strummed hymns

Of daffodil-cello

And forsythia-strings

Of noon’s blue-tuned oboe

Where zephyr-song trills

Of soft violet vesper

On twilight-ed hills

…of song-sparrow canticles

Sunshiny street

Of children a-giggle

In freedom’s bare feet

Of grass-slopes, green-velvet

Of hope, rain-drop pearled

It’s the smell of spring, darling

Come to winter’s world

© Janet Martin

A Long Overdue Thank-you;-)

PAD challenge 28: For today’s prompt, write a poem about a smell

Thank-you to the hands

That pluck the beans

That make their way

From there to here

To fill and thrill

Each early morn

With heaven-scent

Of coffee cheer

© Janet Martin

Heaven to Ramble

PAD Challenge day 27: For today’s prompt, use at least 3 of the following 6 words in your poem (using a word or two in your title is fine); for extra credit, try using all 6:

pest
crack
ramble
hiccup
wince
festoon

Heaven to ramble where April meets May

Beneath breath-awnings of emerald festoon

After a hiccup in spring’s first hurray

Winter’s wince succumbs to zephyr’s kiss-croon

Pestering broods scatter, east-west-north-south

Lest a smile crack his stern, petrified mouth

© Janet Martin