Daily Celebration

 PAD Challenge day 4: it's two-for-Tuesday!

Here are the two prompts for today:

• Write a beginning poem. And, of course, when something begins, it often signals something else ending. Soooo, the other prompt is to…
• Write an ending poem. Poem about something ending.

Each day is an invitation

To keep on keeping on

A daily celebration

Of what begins at dawn

Each day is a gift from heaven

To prove, lest we forget

Mercy’s soft salutation

‘We are not finished yet’

Each day is like a secret

It spills from ether shells

The very Thing that keeps it

Is the very Thing that tells

© Janet Martin

Grand Victory

  PAD Challenge day 4 (two-for-Tuesday)

Write a beginning poem. And, of course, when something begins, it often signals something else ending. Soooo, the other prompt is to…

Write an ending poem. Poem about something ending.

I guess we know

To begin again

Means simply to renew

With who we are

Right where we are

The best that we can do

To begin again

Is to remember

Lessons we have learned

Where we are wiser

Than we were

Through knowledge we have earned

An end, my friend

Is the beginning

Of what waits to be

And to begin again

Means winning

A grand victory

© Janet Martin

For All We Cannot See

  PAD Challenge day 4 (two-for-Tuesday)

Write a beginning poem. And, of course, when something begins, it often signals something else ending. Soooo, the other prompt is to…

Write an ending poem. Poem about something ending.

 

 

Sometimes we try to fix our eyes only on what we see

The Prize, my love, is not unveiled until eternity

So while we cope and grope and hope, what blessed assurance this;

Our faithful God does not forget; He keeps His promises

Time; but the chime and mime of clocks; a grace-lent madrigal

Its end is the Beginning of what matters most of all

We cannot find true peace of mind until our will is bowed

To God, forgiver of our sins; but He resists the proud

Sometimes we try to fix our eyes and sighs on what we see

But Jesus is the only Way to Life and Victory

His love, oh, not his judgement, is salvation for mankind

He promises that whosoever seeks will surely find

This life begins in full, my love, when first we are set free

To trust our faithful God above for all we cannot see

© Janet Martin

 Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.

1 Pet.1:13

Miracle

 PAD Challenge day 4 (two-for-Tuesday)

Write a beginning poem. And, of course, when something begins, it often signals something else ending. Soooo, the other prompt is to…

Write an ending poem. Poem about something ending.

Begin again;

One foot and then

The other,

That’s the way

For what seemed

Like the end

Last eve

Is a fresh start

Today

The miracle

Of time is this;

Where new

Is birthed

From old

With nothing more

Than dark that lifts

And fills

Its arc with gold

© Janet Martin

 

Blades of Grass or Caught Off Guard

The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field; Ps.103:15

We harbour secret sorrows in hollows of skin and bone

And know, in spite of loneliness, that we are not alone

The God who grants the loveliness of seasons is our Stay

And He will never leave us love-forsaken on life’s way

We cup-cup-cup the up-up-up and lay-me-down to sleep

And love-love-love and learn-learn-learn how little we can keep

As day-to-day becomes the way that winds through retrospect

And we are always here, where past and future intersect

We cannot turn back Time or leap ahead of its decree

And what waits to unfold is more than anyone can see

As by-and by slips through this sigh-and-why afflicted dust

While time takes time to try us with new, untried ways to trust

A bell tolls in each blossom where the souls of people pass

To loll or stroll beneath the bough that shades these ‘blades of grass’

Where soon-soon-soon April-May-June will dip to history

As on the brink of eons we make small talk and sip tea

…and say, (as if we just discovered a phenomenon)

How swift the day that slips away, how quick a year is gone

Then pray the Lord our souls to keep and we to keep His word

Lest death should call when we think not, and we are caught of guard

© Janet Martin

Testament of Love

PAD Challenge day 3:For today’s prompt, take the phrase “(blank) of Love,” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.

 Yesterday gold...
Today gray
God faithful
All the way

To do the things we ought to do
And not keep score or record of
Those second miles and weary whiles
 That balance softer smiles of love

To be fit for the task that asks
Love to be servant, never slave
And not to shirk love's harder work
 But to care well for what we have

 To take this day of gold or gray
And give it all that we can give
And not to waste its touch and taste
Where love is the best way to live

© Janet Martin