So Much To Love and Life Is Too Short and Make the Most of Moments

PAD Challenge day 9: Time for our second Two for Tuesday of the month!
 Pick one prompt or use both…your choice!

1. Write a love poem. All you need is love.
2. Write an anti-love poem. Or not.

So much happiness in one wee flower

So much life in the lilt of an hour

So much sunshine in spite of the rain

So much pleasure to sweeten the pain

So much joy in the presence of friends

So much beauty; nature’s compliments

So much potential sifting like sand

So much to love in the moment at hand

© Janet Martin

Life is too short to un-love you

to miss the thrill of the old

to find in the grind of kindness

a pocket lined with sheer gold

where the heart, like a vault of treasure

shimmers beneath our skin

where life is too short to measure

the mementos tucked within 

 © Janet Martin

Make the most of moments

simple as they seem

these soft-spill the sparkle

that fulfills the dream

Make the most of moments

slipping like silk stars

through the flue of high noon

into dusk-blue jars 

Make the most of moments

sun and shadow kissed

tomorrow today's brunt

will be yester's mist 

 © Janet Martin