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Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Boon of New Today


Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee:
let such as love thy salvation say continually,
The LORD be magnified.








Above the boon of New Today
A slice of moon slip-slips away
Time’s primed pronouncements of decay
Presents us with love’s latest charge
Where so much worse and better waits
To rush dawn’s diamond-studded gates
…a big balloon that dusk deflates
but now is like a gleaming barge

...bearing us to new highs and lows
Where farewells, disguised as hellos
Untether high-fives and low-blows
Like loosed petals that glim and glance
And settle where the dust we stirred
Is cast in Past and echo-blurred
Swept up in a tide, undeterred
In the better and worse life grants

Where much enchants and much offends
Where kindness always makes amends
And life is short, so let’s be friends
Before the boon of new Today
Is swaddled beneath shadow-shawls
And lost, save in the fond footfalls
As thought retraces steps through halls
That showcase what has slipped away

© Janet Martin





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