Monday, April 9, 2012

Wild is the River Flowing...


Wild is the river flowing
Into an ageless sea
From and to where we’re going
...Eternity

Expanse beyond our vision
No mind can comprehend
This vast infinite ocean
Without end

A vapor on its surface
Are all man's days combined
We ought to live with purpose and
With this in mind

…that wild is the river flowing
Into an ageless sea
From and to where we’re going
...Eternity

 Janet Martin

I was just listening to this song and these thoughts came pouring out....

Two Points of View~ wordle #2

They saw a man
Staggering, bloody and torn
Bearing His own cross

He saw a Plan
Hope for slaves of addiction
The broken and the lost

They saw a body
And as dusk fell; death
For the man of sorrows

He saw a destiny
And in Love’s greatest story; grace
For all our tomorrows

They saw the marrow of horror
Unfolding in hate
At Calvary

He saw His perfect Bride
An eternal mate
He heard songs of victory

They saw Him dead and buried
And presumed
The end of a story

He saw death conquered
Redemption and resurrection
And eternal glory

Janet




Watching the Sun Going Down




Come; appease my sweet addiction
Of dusk’s hand across the west
For my story of affliction
And of love must pause to rest…

Oh, do not judge my humble staggering
Or the dismal songs I hear
For the sorrows of dreams broken
Are not quickly buried, dear

Come and run your mystic fingers
Through the marrow of my soul
For its mate chooses to linger
Where flesh and blood cannot console

I fix my gaze on molten glory
Gateway to a destiny
Where the postlude of earth’s story
Is a glorious mystery

© Janet Martin



Shadow Poem-lets

I am content
In the shadow of your love
For your thought in mine
Fits like a glove

***

A shadow may lead
Or follow behind
But it never strays from
The discourse of the mind

***

A shadow sprawled towards the west
Means dawn is crawling from its nest
A shadow lengthened to the east
Means soon another day has ceased

***

A shadow is merely an echo
Of hard matter existence
When your shadow touches mine
I offer no resistance

***

Today the north wind
Jeers and laughs
Tussling tree-shadows
On the grass

***

You and I
Make beautiful shadows
Together

J~

Poetics Aside Prompt: Shadows

Searching for Happiness?



Our search for happiness
Is fruitless and vain
If it is inclined toward
Personal gain

But if we are thankful
And truly content
The search for happiness
Is non-existent 

Janet Martin

Other pastures are only greener
until we get there.



Clandestine Companion



You do not go before me
Or lag, attached behind
But you remain within me
A shadow on my mind

Someday perhaps love’s sunshine
Will melt away your shroud
You clandestine companion
You temperamental cloud

Vainly, I build defenses
Alas, your subtlety
Is woven through my senses
Deep to the heart of me

The shadow of a moment
Has power to remain
Its memory a constant
Reminder of love’s pain

J~

Of Green-leaf Joy



The still of noon will soon be brushed
With melody of sighs
Though now the park is haunted, hushed
Beneath the warming skies
It won’t be very long until
The oriole, lark and whippoorwill
Their crystal choruses will spill
From green-leaf paradise

…and then the stark and stringent air
And all the quiet cold
Will melt as limbs, budded and bare
Their petal-notes unfold
With rustling joy their hymns caress
The moan of wooded emptiness
In lacy, green-leaf happiness
And whispers fresh and bold

…then they will spread their shadow, glad
Upon the grassy slope
The naked skeleton re-clad
With songs of emerald hope
Beneath their flaunt of lacy limb
And earths refurbished diadem
We revel in the glorious hymn
Of green-leaf calliope

© Janet Martin

Poetics Aside Prompt: Shade/shady

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Happy Easter


Come shout the news
His hope proclaim
He is alive
Oh, praise His name

He conquered death
Carried our shame
He is alive
Oh, praise His name

Yesterday, for aye
The same
Alive, Alive,
Oh, praise His name

Janet Martin~