Friday, August 17, 2018

Another Porch...because the world can never have too many porches!


I'm finally getting to Poetic Bloomings Sunday prompt; whatchamacallit!
 a poem about your blog name
The purpose of this blog-porch; a place to relax and be poetically and/or pho-etically refreshed!


Yesterday's porch-sit with a little girl included a story about
'How I got my Bangs'
Well, she said (after making sure I think they are beautiful!!)
you see, I got a toy stuck in my hair then my brother said he can get it out so he got some scissors and then! out came the toy AND a BIG BLUNK of hair
and that's when I got my bangs!

We also played a super-intense car-game while she enjoyed a chocolate ice-cream cone
and I, black coffee...how to play??
pick one or two colors and see who gets the most vehicles of that color going by
(Cat column gets all the colors not picked by players...)
OH!!! the suspense when we can hear a car and the score is tie,
and then the ear-splitting shriek if it was her color and she could relish those sweetest words of all
 " I winned!"
( an educational game too;
according to our records most people drive black, gray, silver and white vehicles)

Our porch is as modest as they come but still somehow holds little pieces of almost-heaven!

...canners cooling

 ...curly-headed tots,
and sometimes flower pots til they die😏

Porches are for sitting
For sipping cups of tea
For reflection or knitting
Or reading poetry

Porches are a haven
Of blessed quietness
A place of relaxation
And home-sweet-happiness

Porches are for pausing
To ponder simple things
To put aside our fussing
And feel like common kings

A place to get together
To watch the shadows fall
To share in friendly chatter
Or say nothing at all

To cherish words like ‘we’, love
To share laughter and tears
And marvel at the ease of
Days soon turned into years

Porches are for flowers
For songsters with guitars
For watching summer showers
  Or cartwheel clowns or cars

Porches are a picture
Of the sweet by and by
When we all get together
In God's front porch in the sky

© Janet Martin


 










Thursday, August 16, 2018

While We Work...

Sometimes task upon task can cast a ho-hum shadow over would-be hallelujah-hymns, 
...but only until we turn our work into worshipping the Author of salvation!

Slice-dice-chop
slip in a splash we slopped
wipe the sweat from 'not-done-yet'
and give, nay live praise to God


Hope, for all its hurt and hunger
Finds fresh footholds, wings to fly
We who believe will be stronger
Than they who doubt and deny

Praise the Author of creation
Far above our mortal ways
He bestows love’s celebration
To life’s commonest of days

Mercy flings its floodgates open
Everybody qualifies
Dares us to desire more than
That which we see with our eyes

Hallelujah fills our ho-hum
Stills despair’s demons that lurk
Puts purpose into this sojourn
If we worship while we work


© Janet Martin

 ...but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. 
They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, 
they will walk and not be faint.
Isa.40:31



Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Awe-Shucks or For Summer Lovers or August Morn


Started this poem before-sun-up on Monday morn...
but...










...and much more, made Monday's poem Wednesday's poem😀

Broad daylight births from blushing bands stirred on earth’s eastern edge
Where hints of higher hierarchy soft-singe the countryside
With tints that wake awareness to the ink of summer’s pledge
And leaves its lover lingering in hunger’s honing tide

From Maker to partaker day’s decanter is refilled
Where dusk had drained the last drop, fervor streams from dawn’s carafe
To replenish full colour like a Painter’s palette spilled
It leaves its lover wonder-struck at Mercy’s autograph

Ah, August’s glad-to-be-alive brims in the hymn of morn
It flowers in a bower brushed with brume of beggar’s bliss
The bud bares all its secrets in a flare of rose and thorn
To leave its lover torn between hello and farewell’s kiss

Time’s seasoned traveler treads with more tenderness, it seems
Its greener revelers splash through August’s haze like school boys
Where days are far too long for feet chasing tomorrow’s dreams
Which soon leave summer’s lovers agape with shucked sorrow-joys


© Janet Martin


Happy Wednesday!







Saturday, August 11, 2018

State/Plate of Bliss...


 This poem was inspired after asking my sister, 
(who posted lovely photos of her and hubby in an artsy town on an anniversary get-away)
'how does she get hubby to stop in teeny antique-y towns...or is it simply love?'
She replied, "I think a combination of love and an empty stomach!
We saw a sandwich bistro😉😊"
(inspiration to create a really good lunch/supper salad-sandwich?!)




Tell me,
What makes you happy
What gratifies your bliss?
What makes you feel at home-sweet-home
No matter where it is?
What satisfies your taste-buds?
What makes enough, enough?
Is it the Thing we have and hold,
Or is it simply
Love?

© Janet Martin

Ta-da!