Poem-Tango

This beginning of February, due to a lot of sorrow 

a lot of friends are suffering I just wasn't in the heart-space 

for the annual splurge of 

pre-Valentine's Day love-poetry 

although I have been thinking a lot about love lately 

and will continue to ponder it in poetry 

as The Poem-Provider persuades.

Will you join me in praying for healing and restoration 

for the sorrowing and broken!

It's so hard to know how to be there during covid-restrictions 

when you just want to give someone a hug!

Thank-you to all of you who stop by this page-stage

and grant me the privilege of a poem-dance.

I love you, dear friends, near or far💕

What luxury to lavish you with lines of poetry 

To move your heart in sync with mine, across thought’s ballroom floor 

Or kiss you with the lyrics of romantic chivalry 

Where we are at the mercy of love’s Timeless Troubadour 

What privilege to orchestrate iambic cadency 

And sashay to the tempo of instinctive twist and bend 

To glide with you as one across a page of poetry 

And find within ink-intimacy, the love of a friend 

What honour to be asked to dance with somebody like you 

Forgive me when I stumble or forget to pirouette 

Sometimes without fair warning the rhythms of love run blue 

And all I can remember is a heart-shaped silhouette 

© Janet Martin 

1 Thess.3:12

May the Lord make your love increase and 

overflow for each other and for everyone else,...