Wonder-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.

I wonder what today will bring

As morning spreads glistening wings

Above earth’s-re-emerging bars

As heaven blushes away stars

And darkened awnings thin until

Dawn fills a worldwide windowsill

I wonder at mercy renewed

My heart, a cup of gratitude

That while we slept God didn’t scorn

His promise and withheld new morn

(Though we have made a sorry mess

Of reverence and righteousness)

I wonder at the way the world

Now wide awake and dew-drop pearled

Invites the likes of you and me

To endless possibility

As sky-wide gates are flung ajar

And mercy meets us where we are

I wonder at the world at large

Where we, aboard its season-barge

And fellow-travelers; as such

I wonder why we fight so much

Instead of using Time’s Short-Sweet

To help each other to our feet

I wonder what today will bear

Before it slips into thin air

And earth is tucked beneath a quilt

Of stars on blue and echo-gilt

I wonder, nay, pray it will be

Memento-of-love memory

© Janet Martin

Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, 

who alone works wonders. 

And blessed be His glorious name forever; 

and may the whole earth be filled with His glory. 

Amen and Amen.

 – Psalm 72:18-19