Like Music Notes (In a Brand, New Love Song)

Happy April!

My, how a month doth fly!!

April is the month of the poem-a-day challenge!

 From Robert Brewer at Writer's Digest...here is today's prompt.

"It's time for the first day of the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge! Each day, I'll provide a poetry prompt and a poem to get things started. You can secretly poem along at home, or you can share your poem in the comments below.

For today's prompt, write an optimistic poem. I find the beginnings of things to be a time of great optimism. Whether it's the beginning of a sporting season or a month (or even a week), there's so much opportunity available. But optimism can exist anywhere and at any time; so don't limit your optimism to the beginnings of things."

Today we embark on

a new day, a new week and a new month!

All great new reasons to embrace optimism!

Behind us lies the dust and ash of seasons spilled and spent

Unfurling in its aftermath a bittersweet tableau

Of what may sometimes seem like a cosmic experiment

Of love, learning how to hold on while learning to let go

Like an unblemished phoenix today gleams, a priceless stone

In hands where we, fumbling proprietors of precious time

Proceed, through daybreak's gaping door, vessels of skin and bone

And Soul, shouldering grin and groan as on and up we climb 

I love the loveliness of a new day, like a clean sweep

Like a fresh page, rather than yesterday's returned 'so-long'  

I love the way the ending as we drifted off to sleep

Evolves into the Intro of a whole new worship song

Behind us lies the old; the dust and ash of ages set 

Before us gleams the new; like treasure from an unplumbed trove 

Beneath us streams a fresh measure of moments never met 

Like music notes composing brand-new hymns of hope and love 

 

Janet Martin

Psalm 100 is a glorious way to refresh optimism with

unfaltering truth from the Word of God

A perfect wat to start a new

day-week-month!

Make a joyful noise to the LORD,

all the earth.

2Serve the LORD with gladness;

come into His presence with joyful songs.

3Know that the LORD is God.

It is He who made us, and we are His;a

we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.

4Enter His gates with thanksgiving

and His courts with praise;

give thanks to Him and bless His name.

5For the LORD is good,

and His loving devotion endures forever;

His faithfulness continues to all generations.

Forever God Is Faithful