Betty, Betty...This Week's Wikem Word:Zoetrope

 this week's wikem explores the words Zoetrope

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His trembling hand reaches to touch her

But loses her

In the flicker of years

Like shadows on a tree-lined lane-way

She is there,

Then disappears

He opens his mouth to tell her

How lovely

Are her lips

Then stares,

Who is this stranger

Beneath his fingertips?

He calls to her

Betty, Betty,

She answers,

Soft and kind

But he seems to be looking

For someone he cannot find

© Janet Martin

One

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One of her would like to read

And one would like to ski

And one would like to bake fresh bread

To serve with friends for tea

One would like to clean the house

And polish every glass

And one would like to sit and dream

Of bare-feet trampled grass

One of her would like to stitch

A pretty quilt or two

And one would like to lie beneath

That blue-sky avenue

One would like to pen a poem

Or snooze out in the sun

But if she does not decide soon

One will get nothing done

© Janet Martin

So after turning the house upside down looking for her purse, one had to change her plans realizing she left it in her friend's car yesterday. Maybe one could do a whole lot on her wish-list if she is wise with her time;-)

Now, That's Living

 ...so when Victoria asked why the 'special-with-candles' supper it was easy to reply, 'you'...and she twirled away like Mary Poppins singing...Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Don’t ever envy anyone. Just make the most of every moment while you can.

 Dorothy McGuire in the movie Claudia

So then, before it is too late,

Lest we stare back with faces grim

Let’s take the moments that yet wait

And fill them to their utter brim

Let’s soften silences with smiles

Or dash along that outer edge

Where come-and-get-me Day beguiles

Then falls away like silvered sedge

  

Tomorrow winks with hungry haste

Yesterday like a dead husk lies

Today is all that we can taste

Beneath time’s blue-gray-golden skies

Let's slurp and never mind the spills

But let life drip wild off our chins

Today's once-in-a-lifetime fills

This cup that we hold up; grace grins

Then, dare to do more than just dream

And dare to brave this new day-rise

Dare to dance, glad upon its stream

Seizing each moment like a prize

Lest we stare with our faces drawn

When, oh, alas it is too late

Because ‘what is’ has come and gone

An epitaph on Eon's gate

© Janet Martin

Unfettered

The world outside the windowpane is white with new-born snow

Where off-spring of time’s womb stirs in the cradle of the east

Mercy’s kind benediction spreads yesterday’s afterglow

Like oceans of compassion in a new and untried feast

We cannot see beyond the veil that drapes perception’s guess

Or tug it from the tresses where Now blesses us with Time

The beauty of love’s duty lays its yoke of brokenness

Across the air; hope and despair align in its design

We borrow from the Giver of time’s river ‘bless and keep’

And within this request upon love’s lane-ways we proceed

Assurance of endurance lies, not in our blind-eyed leap

But in the One who leads and satisfies each moment-need

The world outside the windowpane is white with new-born snow

Time’s off-spring beckons and behooves; come, savor every bite

Mercy’s kind benediction springs from whence all blessings flow

Where oceans of compassion rush unfettered, snowy-white

© Janet Martin


 So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Isa. 41:10

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Not in some fancied faraway

Where’ ifs’ and ‘buts’ bestow

Excuses; God wants us today

Right here, right now

Not in some more convenient ‘then’

Or pretty ‘when-isphere’

God desires our best for Him

Right now, right here

© Janet Martin

 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit." Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.James 4:13-14