Wordless Conversation Poem-lets

I have held an ocean stirred

in the absence of mere word

and I have melted in the wile

of your suggestive, faint half-smile

***

When Mother starts to look at you

You feel a presence in your pew

As suddenly you catch my stare

And quickly bow your head in prayer

***

He sets his mug down

And looks up

His wife pours

Another cup
Not in compulsion
Or stiff duty
But in the pleasure
Of love's simple beauty 

***

From across the room

Our eyes meet

And only heaven

Can compete

With the blissful

Thought we share

As love and longing

Keen the air

***

His smirk

Sparked her ire

And she saw red

He’s got

The couch now

And she’s got the bed

***

Janet~

Poetics Aside Prompt: Wordless Conversations

And the Winner Is...

Battling now

Two innate desires

To close my eyes now

Or to stoke the fires

While slumber is pleasing

It cannot compete

With the tender-sweet teasing

As word and thought meet

The trickling of moments

The ticking of time

Are the musical meter

Of rhythm and rhyme

So here is the quandary

To sleep or not

But I feel my Muse curving

Against my thought

And I have never

Had the will to resist

The luring endeavor

In a word’s cunning kiss

© Janet Martin

Of Unmarred Shores...

Each morning we step out
As never before
To an untouched day
On an unmarred shore.

The concave of past
Cannot leap for its prey
Or budge from its shadow
So live fully, today

God forgives
And never keeps score
So step out today
On an unmarred shore

Janet~

Authentically 'Us'

Everyone

in the whole

wide world,

can never replace

one you

or 

one I

and there 

will never be

in the whole 

wide world

another you

or

another I

therefore

we ought

never to pretend

to be anyone

in the whole 

wide world

but you

be you

and I 

will be I

Janet~

An 'Almost Nothing'

There is nothing now

But the whisper

Of moments

Slipping over

Blades of grass

And the expanding

Past

Everything

Surrenders

In moments

As Time reclaims

In like-measure

As it gave

-In moments

The power of

A moment

Is unrivaled

Yet it is almost nothing

But the perpetual increase

Of history

As futures decrease

From our first breath

We set sail

On a sea

Of moments

Pouring from

Eternity

To eternity

Janet~

Disillussioned

In the hollow yawn of darkness

Swallowing the dim-lit moon

You lean closer, through the spaces

That are gold and blue at noon

When each vain and visual fragment

Slumbers in the hidden known

Suddenly a keen enchantment

Stirs the midnight’s moody tone

As the lips of recollection

Stir the wanting and the must

But there is no resurrection

For the hour turned to dust

And within imagined having

There is no fulfillment, dear

Or a memory worth saving

In the mercy of a tear

In the hollow yawn of darkness

I can hear the past beseech

Though I lean, I cannot touch you

Over moments out of reach

J~

Interlude...

 (As the moon rose, the fiery ocean in the western sky tinted the east creating a pink-blush moon-rise simultaneously with a flaming sunset; breath-taking, with silence so intense you could hear it!)


Winter has gathered its garments and fled

Gone is its frigid sugar-coated bed

The earth waits in limbo now, caught between

The glamor of crystal and verdant green

In muted stillness the dull landscape waits

While promise trembles beneath earthen gates

Its corridor primed for spring’s grand rebirth

Its lips parted wide to drink heavens mirth

Do you hear a prelude teasing the air?

Tickling the bud and earth's leathery stare

Do you hear the laughter of wee lads and lasses?

Splashing like raindrops on emerald grasses

Solemn beauty weaves a brief interlude

Of spring-tide restrained and winter subdued

Before nature's tiptoe breaks into full run

In showers of flowers and golden sun

© Janet Martin

Hidden Facts~

Hidden by bricks

And shingles and stone

A glimpse of Heaven exists

We call it home

***

Beneath flesh and blood and bone

Is a work of priceless art

Where I keep my precious memories

In the gallery of my heart

***

Beneath the woman

And her pensive gaze

Is the girl and the passion

Of yester’s days

***

It flows forever

Mile upon mile

An ethereal river

Of love, in my smile

***

Hidden in whispers

And words unstrung

Are infinite glimmers

Of poems unsung

***

Beneath life’s heartache

Is a higher hand

Holding the reasons

We do not understand

***

Below the struggles and stumbles

Behind the tear in our eyes

Beneath life’s little troubles

Are the moments that make us wise

***

All you could see

as you walked away

Was the distance

keeping us apart

If you had looked twice

you would have noticed

In your hands you held

My heart

***

Hidden beneath our choices

And the action following thence

Is a single, sure-fire guarantee

Simply called consequence

***

Beneath downy pink and blue blankets
and tiny booties and diapers
and purest innocence 
and laughter
and sorrow
is this...
...hope for tomorrow
 

Janet~