Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Whilst Sailing Life's Seas on the Sneeze of a Breeze (or Of This)


 So much joy
...and so much sorrow
where one is the other
awaits in the morrow...

So much to love 
in the living Of This;
Time is an ocean 
of moment-shaped stars
Dashing and splashing, 
now kick and now kiss
Surging and merging 
with Bygone’s blue bars

Holding and molding, 
so daring and wearing
And bolder, the older 
we get, so it seems
Peering and veering 
and sparing and sharing
Like wayfaring pilgrims 
on day-baring streams

So much to see 
in the lending Of This
Color and dolor, 
hunger, happiness
Giggling and wiggling, 
now burden, now bliss
Knee-slapping, hand-clapping, 
mouth-flapping mess

Ranting and planting,
granting pants with patches
Hoping while coping 
with ‘alright’ and ‘nope’
Dreaming and scheming,  
batten down the hatches
Trying to balance 
on budget’s tight rope

So much to lose 
in the learning of this
Carefully, prayerfully 
pause and proceed
Preaching and teaching, 
 revering what is
Knowing the Difference 
between want and need

Smiling whilst whiling 
the miles into mist
So much to weather, 
un-tether, retie
Skimming through glimmers 
where shimmers untwist
Into a wake of 
heart-aching good-bye

So much to miss 
in the leaving Of This
Laughter that echoes
 long past curtain-close
Fingers that linger 
to trace an abyss
Clinging to Time’s stinging 
nettle and rose

Gladder and sadder 
and dearer and sheerer
Dripping and slipping 
through Tempo that carves
With swirl and ebb and furl
a stranger’s mirror
Quivers of river 
like gossamer scarves

© Janet Martin

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