Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Christmas Poems
Reason to Celebrate...
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Merry Christmas!
I am taking a Christmas cyber-break!
But before I do I would like to take
A moment to wish you goodness and cheer
As we celebrate Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Janet Martin
God Bless you all
and may He be our reason
to celebrate this season!
I was planning on doing a live greeting but I can't figure out how to get it to work on here so this will have to do;)
Thank-you all, who visit, read and encourage.
Preparing for Christmas...(a note to self)
http://poeticbloomings2.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/be-prepared-prompt-33/
Portions
Somehow, in spite of profusion of words
Silence remains stark; profound
We cannot dissuade unalterable truth
With the clang of syllabic sound
Somehow, though continents loom between
And geographically keep us apart
I hear the whisper of you deep within
And feel you against my heart
Somehow, by the rise and the setting of sun
We measure our portion of days
Darling, to love you I have only begun
Oh, let me count the ways
Somehow, life slips through the curtain of dusk
Its presence subtle and swift
Silence and distance and longing and love
Are portions of its tender gift
J~
Summation of Time
Time doles out the same amount
Of hours in a day to each of us
From generation to generation
It is not how much of it we have
But what we do with it
That will be our life’s summation
Twenty-four hours in a day
Three-hundred and sixty-five days per year
Save for that one in four
Why, in an age of modern conveniences
Do we seem to have less time
To spare, not more
Janet
Monday, December 12, 2011
Time
On Taking a Family Picture
When there is nothing very funny
Yet we find reason to snicker
If suddenly there seems to be
A sudden need to bicker
When insults freshly polished
Are muttered, hissed and hurled
As siblings are squeezed into
One square inch of the world
It must be family-picture-taking time
When father looks quite stern
And mother looks quite stressed
And we try to look quite proper
As we are quite primly dressed
When faces grow quite stiff
While smiles not quite freeze-dry
There really can only be
One valid reason why…
….family picture-taking-time
There are pinches, pokes and pushes
Then kicks and mother’s scolding
There are sighs and moans and groans
As our 'best smiles' we are holding
That turn out to be wasted
Because of an out-burst of laughter
Though we cannot remember
What was so funny after…
…family picture-taking time!
Okay, this is it,
Now every one POSE!
We all do our best…
One has their eyes closed!
One, two, three,
Let’s try again
‘a-w-w-w! I wasn’t ready
Sister’s being a pain!’
Oh, yes its family picture-taking-time
…so when father looks stern
And mother looks stressed
When we all try to look
Our very best
As we look at the camera
Smile and say ‘CHEESE!’
Tell me, this one is going to work
PL-E-E-E-A-SE!
Its family-picture-taking-time!
Take 70!
Janet…
Otherwise known as M-O-O-O-M!!!!
Yesterday I 'booked an appointment' with my family to be at home
so we can take a long over-due family picture...
p.s. I'm trying to pick one of the ump-teen photos to put into a card,
but one cannot edit eyes open,
or non-smiles into smiles or
add the rest of a person where it is cut off,
or un-cross eyes....the list goes on:)
My apologies to those of you who find photos hard to load...
This afternoon my internet is working but it is being very moody.