Thursday, June 16, 2011
While Having My Morning Coffee...
Darkness creeps languorously away from the dawn
A soft breeze wanders across the lawn
Possibilities breathe upon the air
Drawing from me, a wordless prayer
Daylight wavers on the landscapes brink
In trembling quivers of coral and pink
Somewhere past this line of view
Is another world full of people…and you
Feathered throat and green-laden tree
Merge in a rushing symphony
Arousing in me an intangible Presence
Of Power and Hope and wistful essence
Coffee is simply a minor detail
As I behold dawn’s miracle
Sheening the meadow and fading the mist
As earth’s drowsy eye-lids are heaven-kissed
Janet~
Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion;
therefore I will wait for him.” Lam.3:22-24
There Will Be Poetry
As long as the river runs into the sea
As long as a baby bounces on our knee
As long as the clover and meadow-sweet nod
As long as we see the hand of God
There will be poetry
As long as the wind stirs the willow tree
As long as the rains strums its melody
As long as there is love and longing and loss
As long as there is victory in the cross
There will be poetry
As long as sun floods the grassy lea
As long as you fill the thoughts of me
As long as there are stars and a moon
As long as there is a midnight in June
There will be poetry
J~
Rainy Night
Midnight in June
A breeze rises from the meadow
Beyond the clouds is the moon
Trees cast a flickering shadow
Across a midnight in June
The river curves through the valley
The cattail stands tall in the pond
The past folds into the darkness
Veiling the great beyond
Thoughts of you rise from my longing
Beyond its touch is desire
Hope is a flickering candle
Midnight a raging fire
The want of you curves through my being
Truth curtails all fantasy
For the only thing I am seeing
Is the darkness between you and me
J~
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Torn
I am like a young child, torn
Twixt impulse and obeying
Desire throbs upon the morn
With duty ever preying
The stalwart lupine tugs my gaze
Scattering my wishes
I am torn by summer’s ways
And stacks of dirty dishes
Laundry baskets weight my arms
I sense the charted hours
But life is short, the sun is warm
And fields are bright with flowers
Am I to tread the rigid line
Controlled by austere duty
While morning zephyrs tease the vine
Of summer’s rampant beauty?
Too soon the eye of June grows dull
And faded is its flower
Laundry hampers will be full
Long after summer’s hour
I am like a young child, torn
Two voices taunt my reason
Duty wakes with every morn
But summer for a season
Janet~
Lying Beneath an Ocean
The white-capped sea of middle-June
Evolves to azure blue
Sunlight dims the pallid moon
And warms the fields of dew
Not long ago the pining breeze
Whipped past with ruthless chill
But now it feathers grass and trees
And climbs the wooded hill
Heaven’s expanse I cannot trace
But with a thought of you
Drifting into timeless space
And endless vaults of blue
The limb so long stripped bare and lean
Softens its woody grasp
Unfolding gowns of yellow-green
In pools of shaded grass
Far is the sky of middle-June
A vast and white-capped ocean
Where I could drift an afternoon
Beneath its grand illusion
Janet~
In Spite of Life
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
There's Something about You
There’s something about you…
Soft warmth draping over my shoulder
When the sky deepens past its ruddy hue
And shadows grow moody and colder
There’s something about you…
As raindrops thrum their hollow tune
Upon the walls where ivy grew
One rare, fine night in June
There’s something about you…
That repetition can’t destroy
Now I know that it is true
Anticipation is half the joy
There’s something about you
Where tender joy and sadness meet
There is something raw and blue
That sparks a poem; bittersweet
There's something about you...
That reminds me constantly
As sun-flecked tree-tops turn to blue
You are far too far from me
J~
Almost Enough
Has anyone ever said, ‘it is enough’?
Enough money, enough ‘stuff’
Enough prosperity, enough success
Enough wealth and happiness
Has anyone ever said their happiness
Was found by enough money and success
By wealth and all that it could buy
Spread out beneath an endless sky?
Nay, this world can never give enough
For money cannot buy happiness or love
J~
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