Some Worth-(our)-While Resolutions...

 The photo collage below is from a summer front-porch sit at my sister's house!
(see first line of poem below:)
The view was second to none! and the company/fellowship was pretty nice too!
Here's to keeping some simpler, sweeter resolutions in 2020!

 
Happy Last Day of 2019!

 Here's to some totally within reach transformations that might not be quite as quickly visible

as those that took place overnight!

This year, let’s sit upon a porch though this seems like a thing of yore

(Because most of us seem too hurried just to linger anymore)

Just to rave at waves of colour weaving oceans through the sky

Or to marvel at the measure of a moment flitting by

Let’s close our eyes and wander back to simpler, ampler days and years

Or ponder present pleasantries before its pleasure disappears

Let’s pray more for our friends and neighbours, family both far and near

Or rock and talk about the weather or a hymn that we hold dear

Let’s try to pause without a worry about where we ought to be

Let’s learn to linger over pages filled with nature’s poetry

Let’s be awed, struck with wordless wonder as the sun sets in the west

And put down handheld distractions (lest we deem God’s art second best)

Let’s make a firm four-season promise to spend more time far less stressed

For the author of earth’s beauty offers endless ways to be impressed

The flower of an hour soon lies lifeless where spent ages drift

Let’s not let it slip through our fingers without regard for its gift

Let’s make a resolution to be more at ease with fellowman

And strive to please the Giver of all that He grants, the best we can

And let’s with kind, earnest endeavor bind love’s wounds with mercy’s kiss

To heal the heart and bridge the gap twixt what once was with what yet is

Let’s remember that we never know what a day, (nay, an hour) may cast

Let’s make real the cliché to live each day as if it were our last

Let’s picture this world as the foothills in full view of heaven’s gates

Then this will help us keep the focus when we would forget what waits

Let’s be more careful with the air full of echoes that soon will teach

Let’s be aware of the awesome blessing of loved ones still within reach

Let’s treat each other as if we never know if we will meet once more

Let’s make life worth the living by giving without once keeping score

Let’s sip our seasons slowly, wholly humbled by hope’s holy ground

Lest we miss out on what is right before us waiting to be found

Let’s turn the other cheek; not waste our precious whiles seeking revenge

Let’s fill our thoughts with thankfulness that spills out in ten thousand glad amens

© Janet Martin

...on this note I'm off to linger over pages filled with nature's fresh snowfall poetry!