Once more, moments, like precious pearls, mete morning’s gilt-edged gauze...
Once more, moments, like precious pearls, mete morning’s gilt-edged gauze
Fresh opportunity unfurls its thunderous applause
For better or for worse, dawn’s river rushes earth and sky
Where we will bless or curse the Giver by how we reply
And we will surely influence some soul we touch today
With kindness or indifference, by what we do and say
Soon blush and bronze of daybreak dons workaday shoes and hues
Moment-pearls spill and roll and bounce through prayers, hopes, dreams and dues
Through thought, through lips and fingertips, pearl-pulsed payoff impends
As time’s fleet treasure-measure slips to profound dividends
A wonder-storm of glints and swirls; we groan and grin and gasp
Ah, life; a subsequence of pearls that glimmer through our grasp
Before the torrential downpour of moment-pearls subsides
And silence tempers the uproar of morn-to-eventides
Let’s live as if today were love’s final pearl-spending spree
Before God unveils troves that prove the heart's fidelity
Let’s pay more earnest heed to the accounting that awaits
Our words and deeds when life’s precious moment-pearl-storm abates
© Janet Martin
Today's workaday shoes are about to get gloriously garden-dirty!😊
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