Spring and Morning Rhapsody

Like a golden chariot rolling from yon shore

Laughter lobs a lariat snaring winter's roar

According to the calendar winter is past!

Happy, happy spring!

This morning I heard my first robin of the season

heralding the break of day

and the return of spring-summer-fall!

Is there on earth any more pleasant hymn

than the one that heralds the return of spring?!

Noah Builds an Altar
…21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, 

“Never again will I curse the ground because of man, 

even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth.

 And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.

 22As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest,

 cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”

Genesis 8: 21-22

Evidence is throbbing

Over land and sea

Renewed promise lobbing

Mercy’s melody

Heaven’s hallelujah

Draws away the dark

Through God’s vow to Noah

Morning meets its mark

Like a golden chariot

Rolling from yon shore

Laughter lobs a lariat

Snaring winter’s roar

God honours His promise

Beneath Mercy’s wing

Covenanted onus

Always returns spring

From bud-brimming bowers

Like a leaping lamb

Harbinger of flowers

Hoists Hope’s oriflamme

Kindling hallelujah-

Sacrifice of praise

As we thank Jehovah

For His faithful ways

Like a rush of petals

Generations pass

Dust we stir soon settles

On man’s days of grass

With both grace and warning

Mercy spreads His Wing

Always bringing morning

Always bringing spring

Look, the ink of ages

Signs love’s legacy

Winter’s hoary pages

Melt to history

Tuning hallelujahs

With renewed delight

For spring is upon us

After winter’s night

Come, let's heap fresh altars

With offerings of praise

God's word never falters

Nor His perfect ways

Bow with thankful hearts, thus

Mercy will not fail

Light pierces the darkness

Spring rends winter's veil

© Janet Martin