Wonder-Full World

  PAD Challenge 26;

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

replace the blank with a word or phrase, 

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

Somehow 'firsts' of a season always fill me with fresh wonder...

first snowfall, 

first buds,

 blooms and bouquets,

first garden crop sprouts,

...

 then first pickings

... to first fallen leaves

the world is wonder-full!

'something to stare at in earth's every crease...

Wonderful wonder, how wondrous art Thou

Melding the mundane to Marvelous Wow!

Stealing the thunder of man’s vanity

Breath-taking wak’ning to Your majesty

Yielding to You honour and glory’s due

Worship in its purest form, tried and true

Wonderful wonder, the world is a fount

Brimming with Beauty, too ‘bundant to count

Who can step over the threshold of day

Into a morning, wild with Mercy’s yea

Never astounded and never amazed

By over-under-around-us, un-phased

Wonderful, wonder-full world at our door

So much to experience and explore

Something to stare at in earth’s every crease

Winter to spring, bud to bloom masterpiece

Heavens above hills and rills, land and sea

Thund’ring with wonder still waiting to be

Wonderful, wonder-full gateway to awe

We, lavished by love’s extravagant law

Dare not become so numb as not to feel

Hands of the Potter ‘round clay on the wheel

Smiling, methinks, as He opens our eyes

To the glad wonder of life’s next surprise

© Janet Martin

What a Wonderful World- Louis Armstrong