Showing posts with label earth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label earth. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Beauty Pageant

 Wishing you a wow-run-wild kind of day!

This time of years is a salad-lover's paradise!!








snaring buds as I snip off faded peonies...


Beauty burgeons, brims and billows
Glints and glimmers, sweeps and sighs
Beauty spills hills; plumped green pillows
Perched against cerulean skies

Beauty is sweet bliss unshaken
Beauty startles, stirs and awes
Beauty is the kiss that wakens
Worship’s wild, off-guard applause

Beauty bursts bud-vaults with flowers
Wonder loosens longing’s noose
Beauty decks and drips from arbors
Periwinkle and chartreuse

Beauty sprawls in shadow-steeples
Mapping out the march of time
Beauty falls in faded petals
From the frond that held its prime

Beauty ignores human nature
Often blind to God at large
Beauty does not force the creature
To enjoy the show, no charge

Beauty flutters, flits and flickers
Filling hearts with my-oh-my
Beauty warbles, wafts and whispers
Bitty bird and butterfly

Beauty bids bards brave the battle
That the font does not disclose
Beauty helps hope cope with trouble
The thorn tempered by the rose

Beauty murmurs and meanders
Like a brook snared by a pen
As the poet tames to paper
Beauty to relive again

© Janet Martin

I was reminded of this verse below because counting all that God does and creates 
cannot be contained in all the books and poems ever written!

John 21:25
Jesus did many other things as well. 
If every one of them were written down,
 I suppose that even the whole world would not have room 
for the books that would be written.

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

This Is Not Heaven Yet...

Thank-you God for Your love,
making possible our love,
for joy and beauty that makes earth bearable...

this video sings of hopes of spring...


even if the weather does not😅


Happy Middle-March!

I’d like to be light-hearted, not a worry in the world
But this is earth, not heaven; this is ‘walk by faith’ unfurled
These streets are paved but not with gold, save when the sun goes down
The autographs of love engraved on crosses, not a crown

I’d like to leave behind the kinds of things that break our hearts
But this is earth, not heaven; this is where mercy imparts
Sufficient grace for what we face; the Unknown like a veil
We cannot rend but must depend on He who will not fail

I’d like to be carefree without a shadow of a doubt
But this is earth, not Heaven; this is what Hope is about
While human nature wonders at the higher ways of He
Of Whom creation thunders with Manifest Clarity

I’d like if well-worn happiness was not so full of holes
But this is earth, not Heaven; this is the garment of souls
Where, not for very long we weather whatever we must
While moments thin the tether twixt God and man’s shroud of dust

I’d like to be light-hearted, not a worry or a care
Because no one is suffering life’s sorrows anywhere
But this is earth; faith’s birthplace where we groan, weep, trust and pray
This is not Heaven yet; where God will wipe all tears away

(Some say that Heaven waits for all; if so, Christ died in vain)
Some turn hard hearts toward God here, yet hope Heaven to gain
Oh, pray we seek and know the truth of salvation and grace
Where earth, not Heaven is man’s sacred preparation place

© Janet Martin

John 14:6
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life.
 No one comes to the Father except through me.


John 8:36
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

Romans 5:1-4
Therefore, having been justified by faith, [a]we have peace 
with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 
2through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, 
and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 
3And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, 
knowing that tribulation produces [b]perseverance;
 4and perseverance, [c]character; 
and character, hope. 
5Now hope does not disappoint, 
because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts
 by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Thursday, April 22, 2021

For Thee, Dear Earth's Creator

 PAD Challenge day 22: Write a nature poem.

For Thee, Dear Tree


For Thee, Dear Bud


For Thee, Dear Seed



For Thee, Dear Bird 


and Brook...



For Thee, Dear Lord...




For thee, dear tree that spreads thy root-webbed skein
Beneath our feet, to drink from darksome spring
While overhead thy leafy mezzanine
Spills shadow-rooms fit for beggar and king

For thee, dear bud, that cups a wondrous loom
Where none can witness nature’s steadfast law
Until thy broken seal reveals the bloom
And steals our breath, ten-thousand times, with awe

For thee, dear seed, of grand potential
A miracle within a speck-sized brood
Yet, from these origins so miniscule
A feast unfolds; earth’s table groans with food

For thee, dear bird and brook and butterfly
And buzzing bee in petal-portico
For hills and plains that roll out to the sky
In tides of green and gold and indigo

For Thee, dear Lord, that didst entrust earth’s heart
To be cared for and tended by mankind
I humbly vow to try to do my part
To labour well, with future-kin in mind

© Janet Martin

Isa.6:3
And they were calling to one another:
 "Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory."

Psalm 24:1
The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; 
the world, and they that dwell therein.