Monday, October 31, 2022

Awesome or Awe's Sum



Beauty burgeons and brims, even in the rain
The vault of earth and heaven's hymns overflows with refrains  



The beauty of the heavens and the earth awakens awe
Where short-lived showcases of birth soon yield to nature’s law
Where, like the train of God’s robe, glory’s fringes spill and brim
To fill the temple of the globe with ‘Holy’ holy’s’ hymn

The beauty of creation is made plain for all to see
Four-season celebration of Divine Authority
Where we are granted glimpses of a Better Timeless Place
While masterpieces of God’s love astonish human race

Beauty and brokenness cohere in breath stealing display
A mosaic of smile and tear, of warm gold and cold gray
Where the bliss of beholding cannot thwart the fundament
Of farewell’s kiss enfolding what no sigh can circumvent

Where beauty’s bowers thunder with the evidence of He
Whose miracle in wonder is perfect humility
As we fix our gaze on Him rather than selfish aim
As earth and heavens coffers brim with glory to His name

The beauty we behold on earth on That Glad Day will dim
As our mortal death gives birth to an immortal hymn
The miracle of wonder’s perfected humility
The pure worship that thunders throughout all eternity

The beauty of creation is the whisper of yon cast
As stuttered exaltation finds love’s perfect words at last
As broken hearts are mended and as Eden is restored
The blood-washed soul ascended and forever with the Lord

© Janet Martin













2 comments:

  1. Your photos are breath-taking, Janet! Oh my goodness. Exquisite. And the lovely poem to match their beauty and grace. Especially like these lines:

    "Where we are granted glimpses of a Better Timeless Place
    While masterpieces of God’s love astonish human race"

    Thank you!

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    1. Thank-you Brenda:) In Ontario we were blessed with a spectacular month both weather and foliage-wise!! So much that could have been captured in poetry if other charges did not press quite so immediately<3

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