What is Longing?

What is longing, this inferno

Burning, yearning hunger

This groaning internal reaching

For what?

Is longing

Self-induced affliction

Carnal appetite?

Or is it holy hungry

Of things spiritual,

out of sight?

What is longing?

It cries, un-heard

Un-hushed

Weeping in the dead of night

Moaning in the noon-day rush

What is longing?

Is it folly?

or is it real?

Is it perchance, earth’s lonely sorrow

That only Heaven can heal?

© Janet Martin

Equations~

Life is a drop

In Time’s vast sea

Time is a drop

In eternity

Janet~

His Word IS...

Sometimes as I gaze upon you

Dear child, young woman, man

I wonder who will lead you

When from this nest you’ve flown

Then a sure sweet assurance

Surges from within

For His word IS, forever

And ever on, amen

His Word IS, not fleeting

Like flesh-tongue salutations

His Word IS, not bound by Time

Or parchment imitations

His Word IS, pure, faultless

And changeless through the years

A rod and staff, sure, ageless

A comfort in our fears

His Word IS; creation

Its tangible first-fruit

But it will reign forever

Though it was flesh and blood

It IS; death could not conquer

Or dis-annul its power

For His Word IS; not something

Transient as earth’s wee hour

His Word IS; true, faithful

In every age to come

His Word IS a beacon

To guide the pilgrim home

His Word IS; eternal

Dear child, young woman, man

His Word IS; infallible

Forever without end

© Janet Martin

Morning...

 This morning the sun-rise looked like a pink heart-cloud:)

Awesome God

Morning in triumph rends night’s raven bar

Mercy and grace have not withdrawn their hope

Ascending over earth’s need-stricken slope

Opaline glory flings its gates ajar

To shed upon this toil and trouble strand

Not judgment, void of love’s long-suff’ring plea

But from the backdrop of life’s mystery

Holy compassion lavishes the land

From porticoes not marred by flesh and blood

He bathes the dark with heaven’s hallowed flood

Marauders of covetousness and lust

We gaze from sepulchers of want and greed

To He who for mortal’s Primary Need

Put on a robe of humble, human dust

And Immortality with arms wide spread

Upon rough timber, cried out ‘it is done’

He satisfied The Need for everyone

Redemption once for all, His blood was shed

And all He asks of us is to believe

In Him; and everlasting Life receive

He does not leave us pining in the Dark

But lights the Way for everyone to see

For Truth and Life lead to eternity

And Hope is more than a translucent spark

His faithfulness and mercy lights the dawn

Forgiveness flows; sacred, sufficient stream

Not sealed within death’s mute, mystic requiem

But pouring from the power of the Son

As Light in triumph rends night’s heavy veil

His mercy, grace and love will never fail

© Janet Martin

 

Refocusing...

God, help me to remember

Every moment, every breath

Is part of a bigger picture

We cannot behold on earth

Remind me, when I lose focus

That success is so much more

Than the ‘what’ that we are doing

It’s the ‘Who’ we are doing it for

© Janet Martin

Three things I can always count on...lots of laundry,
lots of dirty dishes and
lots of big beautiful sky in whatever hue the Creator decides!

Almost Enough

Singing in the Rain...

Sometimes, when you press so close to me

It almost feels

Like it used to be…

Sometimes, when thought is vivid and keen

I almost believe

In what might have been

Sometimes, I re-visit the bittersweet so

I can revel in the pain

Of letting go

Sometimes I am satisfied with love

And sometimes I know

It will never be enough

J~

More...

Today I will not be content

Today I want more, more, more

More awareness of His love for me

That too often I blindly ignore

Today I will not be satisfied

Today I desire to know

More, more fully His plan for me

And where He would choose me to go

Today I want more, more hunger

For things not of flesh, but of Him

More gentle loving kindness

Before this day-moment grows dim

Today I refuse to be content

But I will not lust after things

I want more of what earth can’t afford

But knowing Him more fully brings

Today Lord, give me holy hunger

Oh my God, I beg and implore

For more compassion for my fellow-man

Oh God, give me more, more, more

© Janet Martin

A Carpe Diem

Poetic Bloomings invites us to attempt a Carpe Diem poem

Carpe Diem is the Latin expression that means ‘seize the day.’ Carpe Diem poems have a theme of living for today. It is a form in intent only; it is solely based on a theme.

Yesterday is sealed in the archives

Tomorrow is nothing more

Than the hope of something we cannot see

Today is worth living for

Today is the cup we are holding

Touch it to your lips; draw it in

Be imbibed with His goodness and mercy

Dripping recklessly from your grin

Seize the moment before you

Wring out every wonder of it

Let not one measure be wasted

Today is a beautiful gift

© Janet Martin