Showing posts with label water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label water. Show all posts

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Living Water




PAD Challenge day 26; write a water poem

We weigh our will with wanting
And weep that we are cursed
With intransigent taunting
Of begging, bleeding thirst

We stuff our cheeks and plunder
 Earth's bread-crumb luxuries
While groaning as we wonder
What will this thirst appease?

Our pockets bulge with bondage
The well of transient bliss
Lures us, like eager children
To drink its emptiness

We clamor for sweet nectar
To quaff our guilt and greed
Is there nothing but water
To fill this mouth of need?

Will we, for all existence
Be damned to drink in vain?
The hollow of resistance
Our perpetual pain?

Hark; hope pours from Love’s fountain
Spoken to sinners first
Pure, precious words of Promise
To satisfy our thirst

A Well-spring from within
And everyone who drinks from it
Will never thirst again’

© Janet Martin

Brewed Bliss



 PAD Challenge day 26: write a water poem

Water is wonderful
just as it is
But brew it through Brazilian beans
and you get
Bliss

© Janet Martin

Small and Mighty...





 PAD Challenge day 26: write a water poem

You didn’t say a word
As I spilled wrath’s disgrace
But the rebuke that roused my shame
Was written on your face

My foolhardy revolt
For all its brash veneer
Was silenced by the reprimand
Of one wee, bitty tear

© Janet Martin

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Drop...



…and
the drop swells
expanding, spreading
lifting, filling, overflowing, spilling
from spoon to cup to clay pots
to puddles to pools to meandering brooks
to winding creeks to gushing, rushing rivers
to churning, surging channels to the mighty, rolling sea
to…eternity where the drop is the sea
and the sea is a…
Drop

Monday, June 11, 2012

Like Water...




The truth is
A little like
Water
We cannot
Dilute
Dissolve
Or drown it 

Janet~

Poetic Bloomings Prompt: Water