Of New Throughway

November PAD Challenge begins! For today’s prompt, write a new day poem.

okay, I wrote the above line yesterday but
 its New joined to age-old throngs, before I could get to the prompt!

So, a day later a new, New Today offers up its page of grace, 

 ...for some it will be a stage for celebration

(Congratulations to the Houston Astros for winning their first World Series Champion title!)

...for others a page bearing tears of disappointment

(no words needed)

Ah, laid beneath delinquent feet

Yon sweep of star-deep pales until

Redemption’s carpet gilds the street

And tints colorless field and hill

We, bonded to the old turn to

The New Today that time deploys

Where time insists upon its due

And runs it through with sorrow-joys

Earth’s boulevard, starred with the tears

Of grief and laughter’s testament

Hinges to scads of yester-years

A sphere of unmarred filament

Ah, here and now offers a dance

On tides where heavens ebb and flow

And dark relents to grant new chance

To prove the gratitude we owe

© Janet Martin