Better Than This

PAD Challenge day 18: Somehow we’re already on our third Two-for-Tuesday of the month; 

time is flying.

Here are the two prompts for today:

• Write a life poem. The poem could be about the miracle of life, the complexity of life, the game of Life, or anything else that means life for you. Or…
• Write a death poem. For most organisms, life leads to death. So this should be as full of possibility as the life poem.

Written in memory of Eileen Bowman

From urns of earth, spring’s verdant birth returns

With mist of violets purpling dormant slope

And robins chirping chiralees of hope

And silver brook-song sparkling through new ferns

…in bellies of lost love a fire burns

Morning is polished with a sheen of green

And limb embellished with bud’s ruby gem

And mud a flood of floral diadem

Where long the cold hold of winter had been

Before warmth stirred to sight, faith’s fond Unseen

Before the daffodil leaped from its bed

To bob like sunbeams on hills rain-drop pearled

Before time’s topaz color-wheel unfurled

A world of wonder; pink-gold-purple-red

Before love's heart in full surrender bled

…and love was torn between sorrow and bliss

Her body sleeps in graves beneath the sod

Her soul is in the keeps of Loving God

…but still, we think about what she will miss

Until Someone reminds us;
Heaven is better than this

© Janet Martin