Ah Say, What Is This?

Ah say, what is this pantomime that thrums these walls of air

Is it the song and dance of time or

Simply someone’s answered prayer?

Ah say, what is this rise and fall that rushes and recedes

Is it the Tide of dawn to dusk or

Simply wind among the reeds

Ah say, what is this lilt and lull of plant and harvest-hymn

Is it the push and pull of toil or

Simply Season growing dim

Ah say, what is this gold and gray that floods sky, sea and sod?

Is it glints from The Painter’s tray

Or simply glimpses of God

© Janet Martin

Monday Morning Mantra...

It’s a new day

A new week

A new start

Time’s refresher-course

For the heart

Don’t let the baggage

Of yesterday

Drag us from making

The best of today

It’s a new day

A new week

A new start

Waiting to turn into

Yesterday’s art

Don’t let the sorrow

Of morrow's distress

Keep us from tasting

Today’s happiness

It’s a new day

A new week

A new start

Let’s make its moments

A work of heart

© Janet Martin

A Half-Apology

Yesterday's prompt on PAD challenge was; write a forgiveness poem.

Here is a long over-due one to my family and friends!

(a poet's song to an almost-poem)😂

 

I'll ask for your forgiveness in advance

Because I know I will not change my ways

So if you would be good, could you perchance

Forgive my foible-garbled Poem-craze? 

I cannot change just for the sake of peace 

I'd rather look for new ways to impress

The whisper of a picture to the crease

That fills the face with poem-happiness

So, I'll ask your forgiveness in advance

And shake the poem-tree for all I'm worth

Who knows what waits in ink rhythm-and-dance

To fill your somber stance with poem-mirth

This is only a half-apology

Please excuse the audacity of it

For I am asking you to forgive me

For Something I do not intend to quit

Janet Martin~

Moment-ous Alliance

Because this precious element

That drips in pillaged plume

That falls beneath the shadow-tent

Of what none can exhume

That grants but once to everyone

Without re-run, each day

That tunes its tide of rain and sun

With what no one can sway

Or hoard, or take the credit for

Or curb, extend or mime

But is a gift; none should ignore

This element called Time

…because what-is fills what-has-been

And no one can re-do

But grace and mercy intervene

With morning, always new

To brace Time’s coffers, full of change

With thorough confidence

That all that none can rearrange

Does not estrange the Thence

Where recompense and Charge ally

Where we with grit and grin

Should take the Time to satisfy

The moment we are in

© Janet Martin

Praise Worthy

 O praise the Lord, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.

 For his merciful kindness is great toward us: 

and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. 

Praise ye the Lord.

Psalm 117 

Believe it or not, this is more than a

Sing-before-dinner-at-a-family-reunion prayer😀

He is praise-worthy...

 For He has chosen you and I

To be a part of This

To hold the Light of this world high

And shine to all He IS

For He has fashioned for His praise

Each day and all therein

And does not withhold hope or grace

Or forgiveness of sin

For He so loved each one of us

He sent his Son to be

Sin’s perfect sacrifice; Jesus

Redeems and sets us free

…and He has chosen you and I

To be part of His joy

Part of His truth that will not die

And no one can destroy

…then praise the Lord of heav’n and earth

Never let His song dim

For He has placed in us His worth

To be a part of Him

© Janet Martin

Trust Worthy

“Everyone should just trust Jesus” said Five-year-old Faith

to me yesterday morning during Sunday School. 

And so, in spite of all the times we fail we trust again...

For happiness contingent on

Love’s humble thankfulness

For lasting difference hinged upon

Love’s daily faithfulness

For reverent worship fixed upon

Love’s total forgiveness

For hope and courage anchored on

Love’s Rock of righteousness

For strength and grace to carry on

Love’s High-Call common-ness

For triumph through the Only One

Who leads to Heaven-ness

© Janet Martin

How often do we hear/read this verse below and still 'lean on our own understanding'?!

 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;

Prov.3:5