Purple (Teddy) is Found!

 ( I peeked into her room before coming in to do the 'tuck in' and found a picture of contentment:)

Remember this? Lost Teddy


Tonight she will sleep like the mother
who sleeps
without an ear tuned
for the sound of a door
or a step
Tonight she will sleep
a slumber
rich and deep
All the children are home
tucked safely in bed

Janet

Yes, mother found it so Mother got the reward!
...Four chocolate-covered almonds and three dimes:)
The reward was sealed in an envelope the day the posters went up
so the almonds were a little....chewy;)

Oh! Where was it ? In a bag of Anne Geddes dolls stored in my closet,
which I found while spring cleaning today!
The Anne Geddes dolls come out for a special treat so they don't get 'wrecked'.
I guess Purple hopped in the bag with them the last time they were out to play...

 "Ford's in his flivver," murmured the D.H.C. "All's right with the world." Aldous Huxley

Over-taken

It rolls over vale, hilltop and woodland

Tides of green mercy, sweetening our scope

Vision of wonder transforming landscapes

From dormant dreaming to refurbished hope

It sweeps without movement in subtle oceans

Spring metamorphosis bleeds from the shell

Of earth’s stricken glory and reflection

Miracles spilling to furrow and dell

Into the pasture of heartlands it rushes

Reviving our spirits and warming our smile

See how the morning and evening light blushes

As spring consumes winter with passionate guile

It rolls over hilltop, valley and meadow

Jubilant anthems of ecstatic grace

Earth responds to the Maestro of Heaven

Emerald diadems cover her face

© Janet Martin

Things are beginning to green!
These pics are taken a month apart...

Lover

 image source: cruzine.com

You call me

Stalwart figure luring

Me to your faithful, strong, out-stretched arms

Like a tree

Planted by the water

Your roots run deep, grounded in my heart

Oh my love

The seasons leave their mark

But you grow more beautiful with time

Take me now

Let me rest in your boughs

Of brawny strength bending with the storm

© Janet Martin 

Prompt from Poetic Blooms

 Parallelogram de Crystalline is a poetry form created by Karan Naidu. This form consists of 4 verses of 3 lines each. The syllable count for each stanza is 3, 6, 9. In this style of poem, the beauty of a person is usually compared with nature and described in those terms…

Extended Grace

Song: Morning Has Broken

The night has fled, its somber shroud

Is swallowed by the plea

Of amber and magenta cloud

Spreading across the sea

Above this sphere a robe of cheer

Dissolves in rampant glow

To touch the heart, melting ramparts

Of fear and doubt and woe

Behold the glory of the Son

Reach out; inhale His grace

As mercy tumbles from Love's throne

To every hiding place

Of old and young in kindred tongue

The universe declares

That there is none, like heaven’s own

Whose wonderment compares

He stirs the fringes of deep night

Where moon and stars reside

He overrules the dark with Light

As night and morn collide

Across the earth hope’s grand re-birth

Extends this scope of Grace

We lift our eyes to glorious skies

To glimpse the Giver’s face

© Janet Martin

He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.(Matt.5:45)

A Day for Celebration

 Serenade to Spring

This is a day for celebration

Open your heart and sing

Join the myriad of creation

Heralding the dawn of spring

This is a day of miracle-wonder

Immaculate repertoire

Ripple of zephyr and rolling of thunder

Tuning the landscape choir

This is the day of woodland-minstrels

Stories of nature’s rebirth

Open your eyes, nothing is minuscule

On this greatest day on earth

This is the day of rain-song and gold sun

Laughing on earth’s avenue

Fling back the curtain to Scene number one

Of spring’s 2012 debut

© Janet Martin

Tender Mercy

When I cannot pray for as I ought
or know how to give thanks
Oh Lord, you understand my thought
and You fill in the blanks

Janet~

I opened my mouth to praise Him
as I beheld expanding ribbons of beauty
dissolving the dark ...but could simply gape in dumb-founded awe!
...that He should love us so
as to open the pages of the sky in daily original glory!
All I could whisper was 'thank-you for seeing what I know not how to say!'

Blind Trust

 Image source:  christ.com

We cannot see what we hope for

All we can do is trust

In He who tips the jars of Heav’n

To water this earth’s dust

His wells of goodness and mercy

Are never parched or dry

Above, beneath, beside us

Is His all-beholding eye

Dare we to question He who bars

The cloud into its realm-

In perfect order scatters stars

Upon the floors of Heaven?

Life’s threshing floor oft we misjudge

As we cry out to God

Vain chaff He longs to purge from us

Love wields His earnest rod

We cannot see what we hope for

Nor understand the thought

Of He who laid the universe

Into a sea of naught

How mighty is the One we trust

He turns the tide of seasons

He clothes the earth, waters the dust

And loves us beyond reason

© Janet Martin

Then the LORD spoke to Job out of the storm. He said:

  “Who is this that obscures my plans
   with words without knowledge?
 Brace yourself like a man;
   I will question you,
   and you shall answer me.
 ⁴“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
   Tell me, if you understand. Job 38 1-4

Wondering...

Sometimes I wonder
as I pray for another
And pour out to God my plea
Sometimes I wonder
if there is another
perhaps somewhere
praying for me?

Sometimes I wonder
as I lay out my sorrows
where God alone can see
and I pray them up yonder
oh, sometimes I wonder
Does anyone pray for me?

J~