Heart-beats...

There are no insignificant moments…
Each one melding to the next
As drops of vapor forming a sea
…and eternity

There are no insignificant moments
The smile, the sigh, joy and strife
Are the ticks of time
Which form a life

J~

Calm...

Calm, the waking of the day
And the mist below the hill
As the darkness seeps away
Disrobing shadows, dark and still

Calm, the streams of perfumed bloom
Hailing silently the morn
Calm, the pale fluorescent moon
And the field of verdant corn

Calm, the breeze stirring the air
And the limb of frothy green
Calm, the empty footprint where
Yesterday our tear had been

Calm, the light which strode before
The call of duty’s gentle toll
Calm the eye which sees the Lord
And all that yields to His control

Janet~

Calm...that was the word which seemed to best fit the dawn today...

What Would Jesus Do?

Your dark eyes
Took me by surprise
I thought I didn’t have the time
To stop till I heard
You utter the words
Ma’am, could you spare a dime?

The slump of your shoulder
Made you look older
Than, possibly sixteen years
I looked at your face…
I could see the trace
Of forgotten tears

You didn’t ask for much
Not a hug, no touch
Just a second of my time…
A hungry girl
Alone in the world
And all you asked for was a dime…

Janet~

Forgetting...

I keep losing track of the time...
In between moments
Without you...

Why is it that I can remember
Everything...
...you didn't say?

J~

Enough...

What is poetry?
It is the utterance of thoughts
We would never otherwise speak…
It is the whisper of a pen,
A tear on a sheet
It is longing and desire
Folded into word
It is sorrow and fire
A memory stirred
It is ‘I love you’
‘I forgive you’
‘I need you’…
And more…

...It is the waves
Pounding eternally
On a distant shore…
It is the sound
Of a closing door
And foot-steps dying away
In mid-July
Beneath a tearless summer sky
When one more afternoon
Of laughter and love
Would have been
One day closer to…
Almost enough

J~

End of the Pier...

We walked to the end of the pier
Each waiting for the other to speak...

...not even the wind shed a tear
the waves sprawled...listless and weak

We walked to the end of the pier
The silence continues to fall...

...and in the end,oh my dear
the silence has said it all

J~

Successes...

Somehow, oh my darling, at this time of day
You don’t seem to be quite so far away

Dusk throws its shadow across lawn and street
Slowing the scamper of running, bare feet

This is the sultry song of the sky
Wrapping my soul in the blue of July

The wind in the tree-top croons its melody
A rendition of tormented waves on a sea...

You toss your whispers into the still air
I feel your finger-tip almost brush my hair

Your sigh is tender; I seize its caress
Heart-break has rendered a breath-taking success

J~

Another Song...

….but then another song
Rolls in torrents 'cross my mind
As I feel your words surround me
In the moaning of the wind
And I hear your trembling murmur
'What must be will surely be'...
As a song besides the summer
Tears your whisper far from me...



J~

A Ballad of You

The music of life is a wonderful song
Sung by the moments that ease us along
I caught an eighth-note when you looked at me
With eyes as blue as the deep rolling sea
And the lilt in your voice and the warmth in your smile
Is a beautiful ballad in life’s lonesome mile

Sweep me into your arms, oh my dear
There’s a song in the stars, and the morning is near
Here in the timbre of midnight’s dark sky
Trembles a love song as soft as your sigh
Warm as the summer, yet wild as the breeze
Strumming the grasses and tossing the trees

The music of life is a rare melody
Oh, how I love when you sing it with me
A ballad of whispers and wild winds and lips
As fleeting as the moment on our fingertips
Written in sonnets of laughter and tears
A love song of wishes and memories and years

Come, oh my darling, may I have this dance?
I love how you hold me in your dulcet glance
As we move to the music of love’s symphony
The night falls around us in rich harmony
Come oh my darling, what more can I say
It takes more than hurt’s ocean to keep you away

Janet~