Showing posts with label Love Poem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Love Poem. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

An Anniversary Celebration of Sonnets

 37 years...

Thank-you, Lord

 

This photo was taken at my niece's wedding on May 24th,
where we gathered to witness the marriage and celebrate
Newlyweds, 
who were sparkling with visions of marital bliss 
dancing in their heads!
All of us who have been married for
well, really, almost any amount of time know
'till death doth part' takes more than we can successfully
and beautifully accomplish on our own!
But with God nothing is impossible!
Especially faithful love,
which He is the Author of! 

Below is Jim's 'home away from home'
contributing often to the successes and challenges 
of marriage and love's second miles
(pun intended 😅💓 )




He left yesterday morning with plans of picking up a load out west!
On Sunday night after returning home from a family reunion
I cooked and baked a week's worth of supplies
Last night the load got cancelled 😒
He will be returning home tonight if all goes as planned.
And such is life

***

So much of life is out of our hands
But never love; love helps us bear all things
Not with determined and selfish demands
But with the strength that self-surrender brings 

Love, a story that begins in the heart
 Soon finds its feet as blindness starts to see
To pull together lest we drift apart
Takes sacrificing 'I' for 'us' and 'we'

Love never runs out of lessons to teach
No one can outlive its so-much-to-learn 
Then, before one of us is out of reach
Let's make the most of each day's no-return 

Before the solemn sundering of ties
Forever closes doors and lips and eyes 

© Janet Martin

***

1 Cor.13:4-8  (NKJV)
Love suffers long and is kind; 
love does not envy; 
love does not parade itself,
 is not [a]puffed up;
 5 does not behave rudely, 
does not seek its own,
 is not provoked, 
[b]thinks no evil; 
6 does not rejoice in iniquity, 
but rejoices in the truth; 
7 bears all things, 
believes all things, 
hopes all things, 
endures all things.
8 Love never fails...

Darling, in a world mad with lust and spite
Let's make a vow to guard against the trend 
Committing rather to fight love's good fight  
By God's grace to be faithful to the end 

Darling, the world will never sympathize
With altars filled with ash of sacrifice 
Love suffers long and is kind; what a prize
True love esteems the other; what a price 

Darling, to-have-and-hold is no small fete 
To love-and-cherish until death doth part
Is not a vacation on Easy Street
Nor an endeavor for the faint of heart

Darling, let's give love every finest chance
And live life humbly, by the grace God grants

© Janet Martin

Eccles.4:12
... and a three strand cord is not quickly broken.

Armed with a world of wonderful advice
Is not enough to master love's success
Until we learn love's law of sacrifice
Marriage will suffer much unhappiness 

Fond hopes and dreams are lovely to behold 
But life does not cater to Well-laid Plan 
Its highway does not flawlessly unfold
According to the want and wish of man 

The ups and downs of love and life are sure
Marriage takes two people, humanly-flawed
And binds them with ties able to endure
If woven with the third strand who is God

Darling, let's pray through both life's grand and grim 
That our love reflects the love of Him

© Janet Martin

And last but not least, 
after many somber reminders this past year+
through many sudden losses of  Husband or Wife of
neighbours, friends and family,
 a sonnet of solemn awareness/thankfulness...

***

No one can see or guarantee Tonight 
Death often enters/visits where/when we least expect
Sobering us with meek, wiser insight;
Love, both a charge and gift none should neglect 

Each day pulses with opportunity
To love each other better, and God first 
To make the most of little words like 'we'
And weather faithfully life's best and worst 

So when death comes (and it most surely will)
Our deepest sorrow will not be regret
But, as the bitter tears of parting spill
We praise God for the joy of love's vows kept 
 
Darling, while time is still on our side
Let's try our best to live love Self-denied 

© Janet Martin






Lyrics-Dorothy F. Gurney

1 O perfect Love, all human thought transcending,
lowly we kneel in prayer before thy throne,
that theirs may be the love which knows no ending,
whom thou in sacred vow dost join in one.

2 O perfect Life, be thou their full assurance
of tender charity and steadfast faith,
of patient hope and quiet, brave endurance,
with childlike trust that fears no pain or death.

3 Grant them the joy which brightens earthly sorrow;
grant them the peace which calms all earthly strife;
grant them the vision of the glorious morrow
that will reveal eternal love and life.


Psalter Hymnal, 1987

Friday, February 14, 2025

Be Prepared For Hugs and Kisses...

I borrowed this photo from a previous Valentine's Day post HERE 😅💞


My 'Valentine' is hoping to be home by Sunday
after spending a few days in frigid Fargo, N.D. due to
waiting on a part to repair his truck.
💝
On the Homefront I am trying to decide
what to cook for hopefully
A Valentine and Family Day dinner on Sunday evening...



Be prepared for breath soft-stolen
For your heart to skip a beat
When That Very Special Someone
Sweetly sweeps you off your feet
Be prepared for hugs and kisses
For feeling rich as a king
Love between Mister and Missus
Is a very precious thing

Be prepared for laughter's joy-ride
While love dreams of dreams come true
But, lest we forget love's flipside
Be prepared for sorrow too
Because love's darling duration
No matter how long or brief
Cannot, in its culmination 
Escape its guerdon of grief

Be prepared for lots of learning
'I do' flings ajar a door
Through which there is no returning
To the way love was before
Now, begins a new love story
'We' rather than 'me' or 'my'
Be prepared to say 'I'm sorry'
Lest love's sacred fires die

Love, when loosed, can be a bully
When tempers spark verbal blows
Be prepared to forgive fully
For the sacred sake of vows
Then, to be more humbly grateful
To God, whose love never ends
But helps us be true and faithful
And the very best of friends 

Be prepared for constant changes
Nothing stays the same, my dear
All we hold, Time's Hand estranges
For fresh frames of Now and Here
While the heart weathers the thunder
Of what nevermore will be
Be prepared to weep with wonder
At love's echo-gallery  

Be prepared to help each other
Not frowning, but with a smile
Pity those who cannot bother
To suffer a second mile
Wanting only box of candy
Roses, compliments galore  
Be prepared to come in handy
In the middle of 'your chore' 

Be prepared to be confounded
 By love's bittersweet reward
Leaving utterance astounded
Save to whisper 'Thank-you, Lord
Be prepared for hugs and kisses
No matter how young or old
Love between Mister and Missus
Is a pleasure to behold 

So, do not withhold love's graces
Love is a treasure most rare
Not to display in showcases
But to prove with work and prayer
Be prepared for sun and shower
And, no matter come what may
Be prepared, for farewell's hour
With each hello of new day

© Janet Martin 

Be prepared to help each other 😂😁💖
(just for fun, sometimes)



Love (or the lack thereof)

The two little boys I care for on Wednesdays beamed with pleasure
the other morning as they came, bearing hearts for Miss Janet!
(there's a beautiful parable in the heart that was torn
much to Lad's disappointment, but then tenderly mended by his loving mother)


(We have much to learn from the pure, unprejudiced love of children, don't we?!!)

Happy Valentine's Day! 

Love,      or the
    lack thereof,     my dear, makes 
all the difference....   Love crowns
 the common task with cheer and gladdens
 diligence. The lack thereof rues thorns, unenthralled by
  the rose. It frets life's mercy-brimming morns that love alone bestows.
Love whets a holy song for living's simple things, and never keeps score
of the wrongs that being human brings, but is patient and kind; not proud
 greedy or rude. Love freely gives and does not mind the priceless cost
 accrued. But finds the favoured key to peace and happiness. Love
 fills the likes of you and me with humble gratefulness for what
will never fail, though tried by sorrow's rod. True love
withstands the gripping gale because love comes
 from God, who first loved us, thus joy
for all of life depends on Love;
 love or sad lack
thereof makes
all the diff-
-eren
ce


© Janet Martin 

💘💘💘💘💘


Traditional form...


Love, or the lack thereof, my dear, makes all the difference
Love crowns the common task with cheer and gladdens diligence.
The lack thereof rues thorns, unenthralled by the rose.
It frets life's mercy-brimming morns that love alone bestows.
Love whets a holy song for living's simple things,
and never keeps score of the wrongs that being human brings,
but is patient and kind; not proud, greedy or rude.
Love freely gives and does not mind the priceless cost accrued.
But finds the favoured key to peace and happiness.
Love fills the likes of you and me with humble gratefulness
for what will never fail, though tried by sorrow's rod.
True love withstands grief's gripping gale because love comes from God,
who first loved us, thus joy for all of life depends
on Love; love or sad lack thereof makes all the difference
💗


Cruci-form


Love, or the
lack thereof,
my dear...
makes all the
difference
Love crowns
the common
task with
cheer and
gladdens
diligence. The lack thereof rues thorns, unenthralled by the rose. It frets
life's mercy-brimming morns that love alone bestows. Love whets a holy song
for living's simple things, and never keeps score of the wrongs that being
human brings, but is patient and kind; not proud, greedy or rude. Love
freely gives and
does not mind
the priceless
cost accrued.
But finds the
favoured key
to peace and
happiness.
Love fills the
likes of you
and me with
humble gratefulness
for what will
never fail,
though tried
by sorrow's rod.
True love with-
stands grief's
gripping gale
because love
comes from God,
who first loved us, thus joy for all of life depends
on Love; love or sad lack thereof makes all the difference

💝💝💝

John 13:34-35
34 A new commandment I give to you, 
that you love one another; 
as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 
35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, 
if you have love for one another.”

💕💕💕

Because God is love,
love helps us accomplish the seemingly impossible!
He helps us love the unlovable, 
forgive the unforgiveable
and be merciful and compassionate
 to the undeserving
just like God does for every one of us!
While we were still sinners, He died for us!
So there are no justifiable 'buts' to defend
bitterness, hatred, spite and unforgiveness.
Because of love's sacred 'buts' like these below
we are able to love one another!

💞💞💞

Rom.5:8
But God demonstrates His own love toward us,
in that while we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.

💖

Eph.2:4-7
But God, who is rich in mercy,
because of His great love with which He loved us,
5even when we were dead in trespasses,
made us alive together with Christ
(by grace you have been saved),
6and raised us up together,
and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7that in the ages to come He might show
the exceeding riches of His grace
in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

💝

Matt 5:43-46
3“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor
and hate your enemy.’ 44[o]But I say to you, love your enemies,
bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you,
and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,
45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven;
for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good,
and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
46For if you love those who love you, what reward have you?
Do not even the tax collectors do the same?

💟

But to all who did receive Him,
to those who believed in His name,
He gave the right to become children of God—
children born not of blood, nor of the desire or will of man,
but born of God.

💗

He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done,
but according to His mercy,
through the washing of new birth
and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

💓

Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult,
but with blessing, because to this you were called
so that you may inherit a blessing.

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

For Oh, So Many Ways We Didn’t Dream (That Love Would Be)

Happy Valentine's Day!!💘
But, as I type this greeting
my heart aches for those who, from our vantagepoint
seem to have their love stories cut short far too soon!

It reminds me to humbly treasure the measure of Today 
and all its opportunities to 'love one another'!

John 13:34
A new commandment I give you:
 Love one another. 
As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

And so worth every prick of thorn to marvel at the rose...


Love is full of surprises, no matter what age we reach
Always so many new lessons it seems, still left to teach
For Love is a like a tutor, often testing you and me
With oh, so many ways we didn’t dream that love would be
No respecter of rank or race, or ‘reason-right’ retort
Love is patient and kind; all other replies fall far short
Thus, we learn to adjust the dust-scaffold of darling dreams
Because we are all subject to the laws that love esteems

Love is a lifelong (not a once-and-done) ladder we climb
As faithfulness fulfills its calling one step at a time
No easy-out, no masquerade, no detour to the prize
Love vexes Best of Dreamers with Lessons in Compromise
‘I’m sorry, dear, your favorite jeans are laundered but still wet’
‘Honey, why do you toss the keys, who-knows-where, then forget’
And why are we so stubborn in love’s sudden tug-of-wars
Instead of letting love be strong enough to settle scores

There is no finer splendor than love, weathered by its toll
Love, such a tender mender of the wounds of heart and soul
And so worth every effort dressed in plain workaday clothes
And so worth every prick of thorn to marvel at the rose
And so worth every task, that, without love would drive us mad
And so worth every up and down that we have ever had
And so worth every sacrifice, to safeguard vows we made
And recognize the precious bloom of ‘Now’ that soon will fade

Love crowns the commonplace with words like ‘friend’ and ‘family’
It treasures every day rife with fresh opportunity
It does not envy, does not boast, it is not proud or rude
And often reaps an awed reward of humble gratitude
Where, in the aftermath of stumbles we begin to learn
(In the light of God’s mercy,) love is not something we earn
But, because of its Author, love befits us faithfully
For oh, so many ways we didn’t dream that love would be

© Janet Martin

The Vows Scene in the movie
Holds great reminders for all of us
loving/living out our own journeys of 
'for better or worse till death doth part'


Are you wearing red?
Asked Jim when he called this morning...



No. I replied, but I'm wearing fuzzy pink pjs with hearts on them
if that counts for something😂😂😍💗

(You know the ones I mean, ladies, right?!
Completely comfy but not much in the line of attractiveness??)


As we chatted about life's Glorious Ordinary,
plus a few extra ups and downs
today's poem gathered steam!!
As youth sheds its green and then middle-age, its gold
something far more precious
than first meets the eye, 
begins to unfold...

I will try to unearth something red to wear for
a very special dinner tonight,
 (no matter what is served at our kitchen table )
because Jim, most often gone on Valentine's Day,
 is planning to be home tonight!

1 Cor.13
 (My Favourite Love Poem)

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, 
I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, 
and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, 
and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, 
but have not love, I am nothing. 
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, 
and though I give my body [a]to be burned, 
but have not love, it profits me nothing.

4 Love suffers long and is kind; 
love does not envy; 
love does not parade itself, 
is not [b]puffed up; 
5 does not behave rudely, 
does not seek its own, 
is not provoked, [c]thinks no evil; 
6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 
7 bears all things, 
believes all things, 
hopes all things, 
endures all things.

8 Love never fails. 
But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; 
whether there are tongues, they will cease; 
whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 
10 But when that which is [d]perfect has come,
 then that which is in part will be done away.

11 When I was a child,
 I spoke as a child, 
I understood as a child, 
thought as a child; 
but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 
12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, 
but then face to face. 
Now I know in part, 
but then I shall know just as I also am known.

13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; 
but the greatest of these 
is love.


Tuesday, September 5, 2023

I Cannot Get Enough (for all eternity)

 


Doing a mini-mountain of corn grants, sweet opportunity to
enjoy rich teaching...
Yesterday these messages ministered to my soul 

Submitting to God







I cannot get enough
For all eternity
To sing about my Savior’s love
And what He gave to me

His pardon for my sin
Death’s sentence come to end
A gift that I cannot begin
To fully comprehend

His death to conquer death
The moment I believed
Redemption crowns each gifted breath
Through salvation received 

His truth to set me free
His hope, alive and sure 
His peace amidst adversity
His joy complete and pure

His Spirit to cheer me
I cannot get enough
But to sing for eternity
About my Saviour’s love

© Janet Martin




Wednesday, February 15, 2023

A 'Sweet Love' Song


  Happy Day-After-Valentine's Day

This poem was started on Monday
then, although I got up at six and went to bed at almost midnight
I did not get an opportunity to finish it on Valentine's Day
(as planned/hoped for on Monday!)


However, it was a day full of love,
 first childcare (including heart-puppet-creating and puppet-shows)




some eager helping...


...then going to look after my grandchildren in the evening
so their parents could have an extremely rare night out!


(photo above sent as a Happy Valentine's Day greeting yesterday morning courtesy of their mom)

Jim and I talked a few times yesterday but never about Valentine's Day!
When I got home last night I found this little reminder 
that he remembered, on my side of the bed.
(A bathrobe belt and leather belt heart😆💕😘)


He passed through the house while I was gone, 
for supper, a shower and fresh food and laundry supplies for the road. 
(all packed and ready to go because that's how we've done it for almost 35 years)
It's not fancy, but it works.

 

(we've lived both these songs💕)

When we starting keeping score in marriage we are headed for disaster, right?!



Below, a sacred 'salute' to love!

💝

You teach me how to dance and sing,
To fall, to feast on tears
You preach from pulpits shimmering
With verge of yesteryears
You hold me close and charm me
With the friendship of hello
And with kisses disarm me
While I learn how to let go

You startle me with happiness
Too fragile for ink-font
From heart-shaped aftermath you press
Wisdom mingled with want
You haunt me with a presence
Half stranger, half family
And taunt me with an essence
Of familiarity

You make life worth the living
While accumulating scars
Where lessons of forgiving
Hone heart-shores with salty stars
You help me survive seasons
(not winter-spring-summer-fall)
By losing count of reasons
For the wonder of it all

You make sacred, the laughter
With sorrow for what is not
And drain to ever-after
Sparkles touched but never caught
You keep me humbly greedy
For more of Never Enough
Of learning to be needy
When it comes to you, sweet love

You tune me to the Giver
Of each good and perfect Gift
To Him, glory forever
His love does not wane or shift
But grants to every hour
Mercy; kind, longsuffering
For He is love; his power
Teaches me to dance and sing

© Janet Martin


1 Cor.13:13
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.
 But the greatest of these is love.

Monday, February 14, 2022

Love's Crown

This morning's love-letter from God was gold-gilt-etched 💗💖
Happy Valentine's Day!


For a beautiful love story click this link
(I just learned what an octogenarian is!)



Many waters cannot quench love.

Oh-ho this hard      -knock, soft-kiss,
 flying-falling dosey-doe... Oh-    ho  this happy, hurting holding on 
and letting go...Oh-ho this yearning-learning-earning wisdom starred and scarred...
No easy street to crown the ups and downs on love’s postcard...Oh-ho this giving-taking, 
caring-sharing quite-a-fight... Oh-ho this multitude of sorrows to sweeten delight... Oh-ho,
 the humble joy of feeling like our hearts could burst... Becomes the Prize that crowns
 love’s sacrifice of others first... Oh-ho, we are so startled by how much 
true love can hurt... Oh-ho, the heart holds artwork made 
of diamonds set in dirt... Oh-ho, what we know 
about love leaves us both vexed 
      and awed... At ups and
 downs boundlessly
crowned with
the kind 
love of 
God
<3

© Janet Martin

(or traditional stanza form)

Oh-ho this hard-knock, soft-kiss, flying-falling dosey-doe
Oh-ho this happy, hurting holding on and letting go
Oh-ho this yearning-learning-earning wisdom starred and scarred
No easy street to crown the ups and downs on love’s postcard

Oh-ho this giving-taking, caring-sharing quite-a-fight
Oh-ho this multitude of sorrows to sweeten delight
Oh-ho, the humble joy of feeling like our hearts could burst
Becomes the Prize that crowns love’s sacrifice of others first

Oh-ho, we are so startled by how much true love can hurt
Oh-ho, the heart holds artwork made of diamonds set in dirt
Oh-ho, what we know about love leaves us both vexed and awed
At ups and downs boundlessly crowned with the kind love of God

© Janet Martin

Or this...

Oh-ho this hard-knock, 
soft-kiss, 
flying-falling 
dosey-doe
Oh-ho this happy, 
hurting 
holding on 
and letting go
Oh-ho this yearning-
learning-
earning wisdom 
starred and scarred
No easy street 
to crown 
the ups and downs 
on love’s postcard

Oh-ho this giving-taking,
caring-sharing 
quite-a-fight
Oh-ho this multitude 
of sorrows 
to sweeten 
delight
Oh-ho, the humble joy 
of feeling 
like our hearts 
could burst
Becomes the Prize 
that crowns 
love’s sacrifice 
of others first

Oh-ho, we are so startled 
by how much 
true love 
can hurt
Oh-ho, the heart 
holds artwork 
made of diamonds 
set in dirt
Oh-ho, what we know 
about love 
leaves us 
both vexed 
and awed
At ups and downs 
boundlessly crowned 
with the kind 
love of God

© Janet Martin



Saturday, April 24, 2021

Why Do I Love You, Poem-hon?

 

Sometimes Poem does not want to be
only the lover, but the loved!

For today's prompt, write a question poem. 

(for my poem-hon)😊 



Why do I love you, 
Poem, so?
Your sweep and surging
Ebb and flow
Fills nooks and crooks
And crannies of
Life’s lackluster layouts
With love
While the world seems
To fall apart
You stay the course
And cheer the heart

You are courageous
And uncouth
And not afraid to
Tell the truth
Yet when you do
You are not cruel
Or treat the student
Like a fool
But with the woo of
Lilt and rhyme
You tune the truant
To the crime

You test and tame
And teach and tease
And vex and calm
With melodies
Drawn from a fresco
Flushed with stars
Or siphoned from
Dusk-brumal bars
You train me how
To dance or fight
To fly, to fall
To read and write

You make me brave
When I am not
Dare me to dredge
The grave of thought
Or surf the turquoise
Wave of dreams
To take me where
Brigadoon gleams
Like ancient castles
In the sun
You are my prince
Dear Poem-hon

You are a leaf
A silhouette
Of Grief and Wonder's
Pirouette
You twist fear's fist
 To figure-eights
As ink and sigh
Amalgamates
You are a candle
On a sill
A flicker on
Wicks of 'Until' 

Why do I love you,
Poem-hon
Your empathy
Second to none
You lend an
Understanding tear
Your page
A patient, listening ear
You spill and thrill
And fill time’s toll
With treasures chiseled
From the soul

© Janet Martin

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Love Is A Shawl with Holes




For this Two-for-Tuesday prompt:
Write a love poem and/or...
Write an anti-love poem.


Love is far more 
than daisy-lore
of love me-love-me-not
It runs us through 
with bronze and blue
that weathered years allot 
Love is the stuff
of fist-a-cuff
and kiss me sweet and slow
The grit and grin
through thick and thin
of hold and letting go
A tango, dear
of smile and tear
A ballad, dissonant
It's tea-and-toast'
Making the most
of each precious moment
It is a hug
a push-and-tug
together, not apart
A sacred pact
twixt faith and fact
not for the faint of heart
It's what-a-mess
and happiness
mysteriously entwined
It is a vow
of curtsy-bow
with Other first in mind
A breath of spring,
The weathering
of winter's wildest storm
But best of all
Love is a shawl
with holes, yet keeps us warm

Janet Martin

Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Let's Leave Allowances (for a miracle!)

Due to the explanation here (Poem Tango) I am extending (Love willing)
  the lease on love poetry,
because after all is said and done/won
Love is poetry clamouring to be written!💗😊

This poem applies to marriage or
Love's Common Carriage called 'us'

"Let's keep in mind, storms never stay
the sun will shine again..."

Last week's sunshine-soak-spot😀
(side note; looks like our snow dugout in the background needs digging out!)
Weather is one way of reminding us how swiftly life's landscape can change,
and the only abiding Anchor is Love!

Let’s leave allowances, my love, for fumbles, slips and such 
And smooth out shouted wrinkles with a kinder kind of touch 
Let’s be good friends and not give up where cups of grace ran dry 
Let’s weather life together and give love another try 

Let’s be to one another what we wish others to be 
The golden rule is not a rubric of antiquity 
But is a foolproof principle for people, young and old 
And able to work wonders in a badly broken mold/world 

Let's keep in mind storms never stay, the sun will shine again
Let's not get so caught in the moment we forget the 'Then'
As much as we are able let's soften often harsh tones
And prove that we are grateful by not hurling verbal stones

Let’s forgive one another and release the bitter grudge 
Let love be of sound judgment, then, not quite so quick to judge 
What good is pointing fingers when we all bear part of blame 
Let’s remember Life’s Author and the love from whence we came 

…and leave allowances because we are all learning still 
Then let’s love one another on life’s road, often uphill 
Instead of clenching angry fists let’s join our hands until 
The love of God has worked in us His greatest miracle 

© Janet Martin 

Heb.13:1 NKJV
Let brotherly love continue

or NIV
Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters..



Monday, February 15, 2021

Poem-Tango



This beginning of February, due to a lot of sorrow 
a lot of friends are suffering I just wasn't in the heart-space 
for the annual splurge of 
pre-Valentine's Day love-poetry 
although I have been thinking a lot about love lately 
and will continue to ponder it in poetry 
as The Poem-Provider persuades.
Will you join me in praying for healing and restoration 
for the sorrowing and broken!
It's so hard to know how to be there during covid-restrictions 
when you just want to give someone a hug!



Thank-you to all of you who stop by this page-stage
and grant me the privilege of a poem-dance.
I love you, dear friends, near or far💕

What luxury to lavish you with lines of poetry 
To move your heart in sync with mine, across thought’s ballroom floor 
Or kiss you with the lyrics of romantic chivalry 
Where we are at the mercy of love’s Timeless Troubadour 

What privilege to orchestrate iambic cadency 
And sashay to the tempo of instinctive twist and bend 
To glide with you as one across a page of poetry 
And find within ink-intimacy, the love of a friend 

What honour to be asked to dance with somebody like you 
Forgive me when I stumble or forget to pirouette 
Sometimes without fair warning the rhythms of love run blue 
And all I can remember is a heart-shaped silhouette 


© Janet Martin 


1 Thess.3:12

May the Lord make your love increase and 
overflow for each other and for everyone else,...