A Sweeping Invitation (to love)

Today's poem topic prompt from Robert Lee Brewer @ Writer's Digest

For today's Two-for-Tuesday prompt:

Write a love poem, and/or...

Write an anti-love poem.

John 13:34
A new commandment I give you: Love one another.

 As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

Romans 12:10
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. 

Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.

1 Thessalonians 4:9
Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you,

 because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.

Hebrews 10:24
And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds.

Love’s sweeping invitation crescendos; soft blush and blue...

...Turns gold as renewed Mercy spills, as morning is unfurled

Love’s sweeping invitation saturates heaven and earth

How we reply is crucial; for love is a sacred call

And no one is exempt from its incalculable worth

‘The greatest of these, love, The Greatest Commandment of all

Fathers, mothers, daughters and sons, neighbors and friends, oh my

Sisters, brothers, grandma, grandpa, grandchildren, husband, wife

So much to love, so little time, to utter our reply

To fellowman, but most of all to He who grants us life

The poetry of love is more than ink-endearments penned

(though The Bard and The Ballad are insep’rable, tis true)

Love is a language we struggle to fully comprehend

Beginning, first with God, who IS Love, then with me and you

Look, everywhere the opportunity to love abounds

How we reply, without a word, expresses evidence

Let’s slow down; listen longer where love’s need and creed resounds

And change the world with love’s unfathomable recompense

Imagine if we all did our little part to love

To lend a helping hand or walk a second mile, to pray

To live the loving kindness this old world needs much more of

And leave unspoken bitter words that love would/should never say

Love’s sweeping invitation crescendos; soft blush and blue

Turns gold as renewed Mercy spills, as morning is unfurled

And God extends love's faithfulness to likes of me and you

To help us love each other as we ought, in this old world

© Janet Martin

So much to love,...

Pups...

Yesterday morning I noticed the tip of a tail...😂💖

Neighbor's dog (also mentioned HERE)  had dropped by in hopes of a treat😆

Who could possibly resist those eyes!!

So much to love...

Mothers & sisters...

So much to love...

Daughters and Granddaughters

(watching yesterday's AWESOME eclipse)

Hard-working hubbies...

The list is endless, truly!

Romans 13:8
Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. 

For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Romans 13:10
Love does no wrong to its neighbor. 

Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

Matthew 19:19
...honor your father and mother, 

and love your neighbor as yourself.'"