Symbols of Love

We choose red wine, dark chocolate, a rose
Candle-light dinner, music, new clothes
We choose things of comfort and sweetness too
Gifts from the heart to say, ‘I love you’

He chose a crown made of thorns, not the rose
Some nails and a cross are the symbols He chose
Rough blood-stained timber on a darkened hill-side
Crying, “Father, forgive them,” He loved as He died

Janet Martin

I Love You~

For all the things you never say…

…and could

I love you

For all the times you simply smile

Instead of argue

I love you

For all the reasons I can’t think of

For you to love me

I love you

Janet~

If I Should Love You...

If I should love you

In any way at all

It would be

To satisfy

Your discontent

And should a sigh

From your lips fall

It would simply be

A wordless sentiment

Of thoughts that have

No syllables

But spells

In tender smiles

Fulfillment

© Janet~

Love is patient.

Love is kind.

It is not self-seeking…1 Cor. 13

A Lesson in Love

If love has taught me
Anything at all
It is patience.

I do not know
If all things come
To those who wait…

Perhaps, we merely
Exchange what we are
Waiting for

In hope’s that it will
Arrive before
It is too late.

Janet~

Who Can Explain Love? a re-post

Who can explain love?
This thing we give and give
Yet can never give too much of
Or get enough…..

It is not a mere emotion
For emotions rise and fall
While love serves with devotion
Standing faithful through it all

Who can explain this four-letter word?
Leaving us most intensely stirred
Evoking within us life’s greatest pleasure
And deepest pain
Yet, it seems we love without measure
And it is impossible to love in vain
Though we may love and lose….
We love again

There is none so rich that he does not need it
And none so poor that he cannot have it
Love’s stores are never depleted
Yet useless if we try to save it

In love we hold, kiss and embrace
In love we let go as tears cover our face
In love we leap, in love we fly
In love we live, in love we die

Who can explain love?
This many-splendored desire
Mild as a cooing dove
Wild as a raging fire
Solid as a rock in the ocean
Yet soft as the mist on the sea
Is there any who can explain it?
This splendid mystery

Janet~

A Sonnet of Barred Shutters and Storms

Pale whispers sweep the dark to hidden shores,

Staid expectation murmurs on its lips,

but we have drawn the shutters, locked the doors,

Time will not dictate our fingertips,

for I must make a study of your eyes,

tracing the future of unfettered bliss

While yearning resonates in muted sighs,

I hunger for the flavor of your kiss.

Too long the regimental tick of clocks

has orchestrated the release of locks

Longing shatters the dam of rigidness;

The beauty of familiarity

enriches passion’s unrestrained caress,

Outside the day assumes normality…

…here oceans swell in unrequited fire

of flesh and blood; white horses of the sea

spawn unbridled indulgence and desire

We crown the pinnacle of ecstasy

while merchants, bound by meagerness of dust

redeem their petty dollars for its lust

Pale whispers escalate, intensify,

A quickened urgency ignites the calm

in raging rivers crashing from the sky

as heaven spills its timbre on earth’s palm.

Outside the servant treads toil’s beaten path

and dreams of recompense with glist’ning brow,

while here, we revel in the aftermath

of foaming tides receding from earth’s prow

The sky resumes a sleek, unwav’ring blue

We kiss away its salty residue

© Janet Martin

Happy Valentine's Day

Today's prompt: write a love poem or sonnet without using any terms of endearment or the word 'love'.

 http://margoroby.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/heart-and-soul-tuesday-tryouts/

Reasons Enough

If He who spoke Light into being

And set Time’s wheels in motion

If He, who broke the curse of sin

And filled the cup of oceans

If He who gives for all we take

His mercy in each hour

If He who lives beyond the grave

And stirs from bud, the flower

If He who knows our inner heart

And every thought that passes

Yet still bestows celestial art

And seasons on earth’s grasses

If He who IS and ever was

Loves us with timeless wonder

Is this not reason then enough

To love thus, one another?

© Janet Martin

God Loves Us...

God loves us

This is reason enough for living

And it is thus

That we have any love at all worth giving

God loves us

No because we are naughty or nice

But because

We are His children bought with a price

God loves us

In spite of ourselves and what we do

And it is thus

We ought to love one another too

© Janet Martin