Transient Kisses...(sequel to Mon. post; Heaven's Disguised Kisses)

What is will pass
Transient as dew
On a blade of grass
But...
What is will be
The song that tunes
Our memory

Janet~

What is messy today
Might be tidy tomorrow
Life is a duet
Of both joy and sorrow

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About the pics...a few days ago I post some very unglamorous 'kisses in disguise' . This is the messes and their flip-side, because that's the way it is; one moment tidy, the next- a mess...

Melissa, 18 and Victoria 11, share a room. This leads to great conflict when it comes to decorating, so they each have 'their side'...

Matt is a lover of all sports. He LOVES to play any sport, (soccer may be the one he cares for least) His first word was 'ba' (ball). I would put a toy truck in his hand and he would drop it and pick up a ball. Before he was a year old I knew his love. I would pile toys around him and he ignored all of them as he stretched and reached for a ball!! It was so funny.

Emily's room was spared. She does make her bed and sort of puts most of her stuff away. She is also 20:) 

Triumphs of a Moment

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Can our arms embrace a memory?

Can they reach into the past

And retrieve a tender moment

Where its shadow long is cast?

Can lips whisper into being

What has slipped beyond the blue

Where the murmur of the night-wind

Rouses tear-framed thoughts of you?

Can we have within our holding

More than half-breaths as they slip

In vexation, melting softly

Like a snowflake on the lip?

There's no fulfillment in a shadow

Misery and mercy ache

In the vanquishment of moments

And the memories they make

Can our arms embrace the echo

As it drifts from down-cast skies?

...oh, it’s almost like we’re dancing

But I cannot find your eyes

© Janet Martin~

A Little Morning Prayer

© Janet Martin

Of Darkness and Light

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There is day

And there is night

There is dark

And there is light

From Eden forth

Night-time and day

Chart the discourse

Of mortal fray

…but not so in eternity

For at its boundless destiny

There are two gates; one leads to Light

The other to eternal night

© Janet Martin

This Way...

I cannot walk this way alone

It passes through life’s vast Unknown

Then, beyond its unyielding sea

Lies immortal eternity

I dare not walk this way alone

In life and death I need Someone

To gently guide and comfort me

And know those things I cannot see

I need not walk this way alone

Through suffering of thorn and stone

Through searing sun and howling gale

I need a Hand that will not fail

I will not walk this way alone

Though the Unknown is still unknown

And I cannot foretell its ways

It never passes from His gaze

© Janet Martin

 The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged." Deut. 31:8

Of Heart-Holding

When having and holding

Are oceans apart

I feel you whispering

Deep in my heart

Miles are the oceans

Of land, sea and air

Traversed in moments

By one little prayer

J~

The Twinkling Tide

Waves surge, sweeping the sandy shore

Before they wash back out to sea

To break across the coast once more

This is the song of century

On century,

On century

But this is not

Eternity

Ocean's perpetual ebb and flow

Rises and falls incessantly 

As generations come and go

Still plays its haunting melody

From century

To century

But this is not

Eternity

© Janet Martin

Heaven's Kisses

Beyond her kitchen sink

The skies turn pink

Night lifts sable skirts

And slips away

From ethereal space

Long-suffering grace

Succors our hurts

It is a new day

Beyond her reach

Mercies beseech

Rendering hope

Amidst the fight

Out on the east

Dawn spills a feast

Across earth’s slope

It is no longer night

Beyond her window

Out past the meadow

Daylight rends

The muted deep

Gold-gilded kiss

Melts the dark tress

She prays the Lord

His watch to keep

© Janet Martin

Psalms 90:14 - O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.