Shoot for the Moon...and Beyond

PAD Challenge day 14: For today’s prompt, pick a popular saying and make that the title of your poem; then, write your poem.

Norman Vincent Peale — 'Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.'

Keen passion’s flame that aims at fancy aiming for the stars

And will the truth of youth to more than blips on calendars

Let being’s beauty of dream-duty’s duel fuel life

And drink the ink of poetry to calm the qualms of strife

War for far more than war of words; this roar of dust-to-dust

Soon lies annulled; its prizes culled of care’s extinguished trust

Shoot for the moon; high noon and June’s polished turquoise and gold

Always falls prey to end-of-day and ploys of growing old

Take time to make from rhyme and mime of tick-tock filigree

After its said-and-done is said and done, love-poetry

Find fond remembrances to dance with on dusk’s shadowed sod

Phrase thankfulness to praise and raise its worship-lays to God

© Janet Martin

We Are Never Too Old to Learn...

PAD Challenge day 14: For today’s prompt, pick a popular saying and make that the title of your poem; then, write your poem.

 ...like a bud before blossom and blossom before fruit and fruit before harvest and harvest before winter and winter before spring...we are always becoming.

We all, are always becoming

And never too old to learn

The numbing nix of ticks and tocks

Grinning its no return

While we are always becoming

From frames of Who We Were

Her echoes of ‘I told you so’

Oft startle Who We Are

Yet, Who We Are is becoming

Who We Have Yet To Be

While we balance its earned and learned

With what we cannot see

© Janet Martin

No Time Like The Present (#2)

 

Pad Challenge Day 14:  For today’s prompt, pick a popular saying and make that the title of your poem; then, write your poem.

No time like Present, love

Dawn draws its wraps away

Where we like children hug and tug

Gossamer gold and gray

To find within its folds

What no one holds for long

For renaissance is soon ensconced

In haunts of yester-song

The bower of new day

Soon spills its flower where

The hour of its live-laugh-love

Lilts on the stilly air

© Janet Martin

No Time Like The Present

Pad Challenge Day 14:  For today’s prompt, pick a popular saying and make that the title of your poem; then, write your poem.

Today is Good Friday...the Day we remember Jesus' death on the cross as a once-for-all sacrifice for sin, so that through His gift we may pass into life everlasting from this place of days...

(in memory of one of our fellow-poets who crossed that line this week.
Rest in peace, Andrea Heiburg)

An awe-evoking chill

That line we cannot see

Yet all will cross as heartbeats still

Into eternity

Ah, Death, that sure repose

Hinged to the breath of We

Where time is like a tide that flows

Into eternity

No turning back from Thence

To grasp mortality

After Death’s last deliverance

Into eternity

Time’s Presence verifies

What eyes cannot full-see

A foot-path from earth, seas and skies

Into eternity

Tell me, my dear, hast thou

Prepared for what will be

When we slip from life’s here and now

Into eternity?

An awe-evoking gift

This place where grace is free

Yet ever we approach its shift

Into eternity

 

©Janet Martin