When Robins Start To Sing...

 A Worship-walk...

that's what last evening felt like as earth was tucked beneath twilight's burnished wing

and it made me squawk sing and want to write a really nice April-hymn!

Something begins to stir

When robins start to sing

Earth’s winter canvas starts to blur

With whispered hints of spring

…as beam of sun ignites

The babble in the brook

And dream of picnic-joy delights

Like pictures in a book

Stark,threadbare hillside-cots

Are ready for a throw

Of violets and forget-me-nots

And apple-blossom snow

…where bulbs and buds are primed

With orchestras of bloom

Creation’s Magnum Opus timed

Within a perfect loom

…while we, with eager eyes

Peer ardently into

An afternoon of silver sighs

Soft-fringed with gold and blue

…knowing beneath its vim

Trembles a hymn of green

The theater of barren limb

Nigh-bursting at its seam

Where spartan solitude

On April’s modest wing

Is like Nature’s simple prelude

Before anthems of spring

...when the Maestro's baton

Signals to common strings

Then from woodland, field, stream, pond, lawn

A world of worship rings

© Janet Martin

Psalm 148

Psalm 148

¹ Praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord from the heavens;
    praise him in the heights above.
² Praise him, all his angels;
    praise him, all his heavenly hosts.
³ Praise him, sun and moon;
    praise him, all you shining stars.
⁴ Praise him, you highest heavens
    and you waters above the skies.

⁵ Let them praise the name of the Lord,
    for at his command they were created,
⁶ and he established them for ever and ever—
    he issued a decree that will never pass away.

⁷ Praise the Lord from the earth,
    you great sea creatures and all ocean depths,
⁸ lightning and hail, snow and clouds,
    stormy winds that do his bidding,
⁹ you mountains and all hills,
    fruit trees and all cedars,
¹⁰ wild animals and all cattle,
    small creatures and flying birds,
¹¹ kings of the earth and all nations,
    you princes and all rulers on earth,
¹² young men and women,
    old men and children.

¹³ Let them praise the name of the Lord,
    for his name alone is exalted;
    his splendor is above the earth and the heavens.
¹⁴ And he has raised up for his people a horn,
    the praise of all his faithful servants,
    of Israel, the people close to his heart.