Showing posts with label Diamond Rio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diamond Rio. Show all posts

Saturday, May 6, 2017

To Impending Farewells





Oh, let’s not think about the day
When you and I must say farewell
Darling, let’s concentrate on May
Where bud deploys spring’s canticle

…of purple-gold-blue-blushing bloom
Let’s weave (though grief demands its due)
Love’s sacred joy, before the tomb
Commands its prey from me or you

Let’s make the most of what we have
A subtle sweep of day to day
Before the destiny of grave
Severs the threads we hold today

© Janet Martin


Friday, June 26, 2015

I Would...Just Once





Every now and then the When that taunts me from afar
Jars heartstrings and soft- vexes the imagination, oh
The impact of what slips beyond the frond of farthest star
Defies my best intention to focus on what I know

I know I cannot resurrect even one gasp when past
I know tis but in vain to plead for just one Yesterday
Futile to scan the faces that are ever memory cast
And somehow wish to Being that which Time has sealed away

But if I could, oh, foolishly, I know I would…just once
Allow another ‘one-more-last-slow-dance-before-we-part’
For then it would refresh the tender pledge echoes ensconce
Of your fingers slipping from mine to wrap around my heart

© Janet Martin