Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Her Departure



(oops, I need to change the time on my camera ! no, I did not see tomorrow's sunset today:)

Beyond the trees she fell
A flaming crimson orb
Into the mystic swell
Of history's never-more
No farewell did she speak
But simply flung her shroud
Against the higher peak
And to the lower cloud
We watch in quiet awe
Her riveting descent
As night-shades softly draw
Across earth’s humble tent

© Janet Martin


Assurances





I’m glad we cannot see
What the unknown holds in its flask
For every answer revealed
Would spawn more questions to ask

I’m glad we do not know
What is concealed ahead
For every joy that life bestows
Is buoyed by its dread

I’m glad nobody dangles
A life-joy-sorrow-graph
Before our eyes, or else I fear
We would forget to laugh

I’m glad we cannot pry
The unknown from Time’s sand
For then we could not focus
On the moment in our hand

I’m glad for blessed assurance
To calm, soothe and console
For it is God who holds the flask
And He is in control

© Janet Martin


Resolute Rendering





Though we push against the current
And we fight against the flow
It insists on moving forward
That is just the way life goes

Somehow on a rainy night
The truth is amplified
And there is no denying it
This life is a short ride

Each tender-twinkled moment
Is a drop in time’s vast sea
We cannot afford to waste
One mite; but taste it gratefully

It’s a forward facing journey
We cannot return to dance
In the repeat of one moment
Yet each is a second chance

To push against Time’s current
Is foolish futility
Life is but a flow of moments
To experience… thankfully

© Janet Martin

Yes, even the tumultuous tides of the teen-years pass far too swiftly…



Completely





That’s how it is; all-consuming
And all fulfilling in the self-same breath
Because
Love is never
Half-the-way
It’s an all or nothing life or death

Can only half a flower bloom?
Has half-a-sun ever risen?
I cannot love
Only half of you
It’s just that way
My darling

Love is not a thing we hold then discard
In search of something better or new
Love simply ‘is’
For better and worse
Not something
We own or ‘do’

And should you ever have cause to wonder
When minor loves demand my care
I beg of you
To remember
My love for you
Is always there

To love you only half-the way
Is to settle for halves
In every day
I could never settle for
Half a kiss
Darling, that’s just the way love is

© Janet Martin

It's Just That Way...Alan Jackson



Monday, September 17, 2012

Alliterations of Autumn





Autumn’s artist arranges auburn pigment on her palette.
Beauty begins beneath her burnished brush,
startling silent somber silhouettes,
teasing tired and tangled tresses
with rich, ravishing russet robes.
Sweet, sensuous saunter of September
lures languid lips to lilting laughter
as color collides carelessly in crimson climax.
Lyrics of lost love lisp lurid lullabies.
Ethereal enchantment echoes on the evening’s exterior
while inside Premonition is peering perplexedly at
the passage of Time.

© Janet Martin

Having fun with alliteration and the Sunday Whirl
  

Alliterations



But of course, I say as you suavely saunter through
the sunset slope of the sky. And I hear languid lyrics
of sensuous sorrow color your silent good-by. Blue.
Time is an alluring artist yet raw and ruthless in its rendering.
The exterior of mouthed, minute moments is nothing now
but a sallow silhouette surrendering its virile vaunts to my futile follies.
Still, I find myself peering passionately,
piteously within them so I will not forget
the lambent, lilting laughter of your cerulean swoon;
the dazzling depths of your azure afternoon after tangerine,
twilight tresses etch your eternal echo into the eager embrace
of burnished breezes caressing the deepening darkness  
obliterating your fancied, flawless face


J~

The Sunday Whirl #74

From the thirteen words, choose one word to use as a part of your title. That word becomes your “theme” for your wordle.
Using the “other” twelve words, craft your wordle poem.


Walt, my attempt at alliteration and internal rhyme is for you:) Thank-you for your 'coaching'...and I hope you can read it without cringing.


September's Song





We choose earth’s humble, finest seat
On golden-dappled lawn
To drink the muted melody
Of sweet September’s song
Where brawny breezes murmur
In crimson-tinted tress
As faded fronds of summer slip
Beneath its smooth caress

Oh, strike the tasseled timbrel
The brass of frost-kissed corn
Oh, dance upon the silver swell
Of diamond-dazzled morn
Profusion of a season’s worth
Of hours deck the soil
Percussion from the burnished earth
Blends beauty with our spoil

Oh, join this crooning choir
This overture of gold
In every leaf God’s power
And glory is extolled
A montage of mulled moments
Euphonic miracle
A canorous crescendo
To autumn’s pinnacle

© Janet Martin





Fruit of the Loom



A flicker, a twinkle
A sparkle of sun
Thus life’s tapestry
Is subtly spun

Smoothly, the sun
Glides across the sky
Weaving from moments
Love’s hello and good-by

Shimmers of laughter
Of longing and loss
Entwine in the pattern
Of life’s intangible cloth

Softly it dangles
This ephemeral thread
Twixt memories woven
And what lies ahead

The Fingers it slips through
From Love’s endless skein
Untwists our tangles
And hands us more string

© Janet Martin