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Monday, November 14, 2022

Quest of the Poet



Last week as I walked through a parking lot this leaf landed at my feet.
so, I picked it up...


It inspired the first stanza of this poem.

To pick up fallen leaves and press them into summertime
To woo from echo-sheaves, a few mementos, into rhyme
To enrich Ordinary with the wealthiness of less
Where lyrics of God’s glory author hope and happiness

To siphon from life’s ups and downs, keepsakes of common ground
To mend and dazzle heart shaped cups with treasures that confound
To showcase living’s simple joys with meek and thankful awe
To marvel at the patient poise of nature’s steadfast law

To thwart the sting and blight of biting words with beauty’s kiss
Life is too short to slight the sweep of so much we might miss
To cheer the wage of weariness with wonder to behold
Tendered to page through tears and tests of longing etched with gold

To leave unpenned the vile and vulgar, the boorish and base
But rather, weave a sense of smiles and friendship in its place
To hoist with holy feeling, love’s banners unfurled in font
And be a voice of healing in a broken world of want

To meet each other, heart to heart, through art of ink-finesse
Though ever face to face apart, together nonetheless
To find a diamond in the ruffled feathers of a thought
To bind the weathered wounds of love with blue forget-me-not

To will the jot and tittle of Becoming into bloom
And spill a little sunshine to a shadow-darkened room
To cast a glim of gladness into sadness that must be
And melt away brute madness with the torch of poetry

To lavish parchment pallor with the splendor of mid-June
And whisper to full color gray November’s afternoon
To coax a spark from embers of a dying place in time
And turn what one remembers into legacies of rhyme

© Janet Martin



Yesterday we woke to winter's wonderland!
Today the sun is doing its best to make it disappear

...before the next forecasted flurry!


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