Reminder To Me or Tangled Work of Art or Strings Attached

PAD Challenge 21: Here is Robert Lee Brewer's Prompt for Today

For today's prompt, take the phrase "(blank) Me," 

replace the blank with a word or phrase, 

make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.

 

How pure the banter of the breeze

That skims the rippled brook...

How precious, child's boots caked with mud...

How beautiful is joy, how bright

Its happiness, unmatched

But remember, the sheer delight

Of joy has strings attached

How pure the banter of the breeze

That skims the rippled brook

And plucks joy’s strings in melodies

Not written in a book

How lovely is the laughing child

How darling and how dear

How sweet the street where dreams run wild

Before Doors interfere

How precious, child's boots caked with mud

After heads bow with grief

Beside a grave, where Mortal Bud

Is restored to Time's Chief 

For strings of joy both bind and rend

Oh, how they tug and throb

As sorrow sears the tender end

And keens the soul to God

How frayed, joy’s strings, through letting go

How stained with salty tears

How stretched by high five and low blow

How seasoned with the years

How priceless then, joy’s sacred strings

(Though tangled works of art)

For from the loom of sorrow wings

A humbly, thankful heart

© Janet Martin