Daily Duel of Dreamer and Duty...What Will It Be?!

Duty and Dreamer seem to clash on a regular basis, as soon as feet hit the floor...

What will it be she sighs as she eyes an empty page 

then turns to heed cries of Master Laundry, Major Lunch-box, Sergeant Fire-starting etc...

Before Sweetest of all Sweet Little Girl arrives...

When the day gleams like a page poem-heady

Star-studded tarp falls from tresses, blue-pink

Unveiling worlds slumber revived and ready

Propped like a bottomless well filled with ink

Fueling duels twixt Dreamer and Duty

Teasing the rivals of prudence and art

Blurring intention where unhurried beauty

Tangles the tether twixt hands, head and heart

What will it be, Duty cries, demand-driven

Seizing the tool that fits her for the fight

What will it be, sighs the Dreamer, star-smitten

Grasping at shimmers of shadow and light

What will become the sum of today’s tally

Will it be to-do lists tackled and checked

Will it be sparkles that glimmer and sally

Snared from the air where whispers intersect

What will be left when dusk gathers its plunder

Who will be victor of soon-to-be spoils

Will page be filled with the thrill of sheer wonder

Or smudged with tokens of love’s urgent toils

What will remain to retain strains of beauty

Felled by the faithful fellow, Father Time

Will the souvenirs of both Dreamer and Duty

Tenderly tangle in keepsakes of rhyme

© Janet Martin

 ...on that note it's off to the races graces!

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, 

do it all for the glory of God.

1 Cor.10:13