Simple-Soul Sonata

A glimpse at simple gladness that fill busy everyday with awesome wonder!

How lovely are life’s simple things

Its treasure spills from earthy troves

And grants its wealth to toiling kings

In butterfly and flower groves

How precious are life’s simple gifts

The clink of coin can never buy

The lilt of lark, the dark that shifts

The glory of a sunset sky

How priceless are life’s simple joys

They come in common shape and size

Of laughing, learning girls and boys

Of book-tea-shade-tree paradise

The scent as summer rain splats dust

The love of family and friend

Heart-hearths kindled with hope and trust

As fond farewells and hellos blend

A window warmed with flower-jars

An hour here or there, care free

To stroll a knoll of wild-bloom stars

Or loll beneath noon’s blue-sky sea

A poem penned by ink or spree

Of humble tumble-weed, a fence-

line fit for finest royalty

Festooned in nature's innocence

  

How fully fair life’s simple Best

A puddle full of golden sun

And for the one who knows God, rest

And heaven when this life is done

© Janet Martin

 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

Psalm 145:9