Friend to Friend...Happy Birthday, Sasha!

I'd bake a cake 

that we could share

Over a cup of tea

But,

I am here 

and you are there

So,

How 'bout poetry?

Happy Birthday, Sasha 💞  

(click link to check out her blog-posts where she shares
art, poetry and links to articles about writing etc.)

Thanks to the internet

and poetry we 'met'

 years ago

making possible some of these best words

we will ever know...

What pleasure it is to be able to send

Happy Birthday Wishes

 'to an old friend' 😀

I can't have tea with you but I can treat you to a few pics of Rita McNeil's Tea-Room in Nova Scotia!

It wakes within the human heart

The artwork of a smile

And makes us glad to be a part

Of this life for a while

Where often want and worry jars

The wishbones that we clutch

Where light of day soon turns to stars

Beneath the Painter’s touch

It writes a melody of hope

On bars of common ground

Its music often helps us cope

And keeps the spirit sound

And be its body far or near

No mere geography

Can thwart the art of it, my dear

Or what it means to me

It cheers us on where dusk to dawn

To dusk spins moment-thread

Into a place we look upon

But nevermore can tread

Yet dread is no defeater, no,

As pictures bind and wend

Time makes joy ever sweeter, oh,

In love of friend to friend

True beauty runs far deeper, love

Than the meter of gaze

And time is no Grim Reaper of

The harvest of spent days

If we have known the happiness

That makes worth all the rest

Found in the love of friend to friend

Then we have known life’s best

© Janet Martin