November PAD Challenge; day 13
For today’s prompt, write an “I shouldn’t be here” poem.
you do not throw a welcome mat for me to wipe my feet
I know I shouldn't be here but somehow it seems we meet
at the most unexpected times; I wish it wasn't so
You always leave me feeling like a masterpiece of woe...
You decorate the halls with doom and gloom and raw regret
and you like to remind me of those things I should forget
but in your disregard you spare no punches as your jeer
and bring me second helpings of your appetizer; fear
I really shouldn't be here, but I am against my will
You thrive beneath my faithless frown and ask, 'want a re-fill?'
Then every shameful failure sneers and rakes its claws of doubt
across my insecurities, ah, I want a way out
I cannot see an exit sign and its so dark in here
This room of 'what if's' has no window and no easy chair
Panic begins to set in; is there no other way?
But then I re-remember and close my eyes and pray
Janet~
Saturday, November 23, 2013
Friday, November 22, 2013
This Love Thing
‘Tis heavenly and hard
This love thing, my darling
This intricate balance
Of hold and release
And I never knew
In its early beginning
The finesse of love
Is both beauty and beast
Why is it, my darling
That those we love dearly
We hurt most deeply
In spite of intent
This having and holding
Is a kind, brutal molding
Compassion and courage
Comfort and torment
To love is to bear
Life’s most beautiful sorrow
We cannot love
And escape living’s grief
And yet, not to love
Is the saddest of longings
Love, a kind shoulder
And sorrow’s relief
‘Tis roses and thorns
This love thing, my darling
It's awesome heart-holding
A ruthless romance
And I never knew
In its early beginning
Both beauty and beast
Must learn how to dance
© Janet Martin
Beneath Time's Evening Bell
PAD challenge; day 22
For today’s prompt, write a poem using at least three of the following six words:
For today’s prompt, write a poem using at least three of the following six words:
- ideogram
- remora
- casket
- eclipse
- selfie
- wretch
Earth, like an umber casket
Has cradled every bloom
November mourns, its heavy robe
Enshrouds each stricken plume
For nature’s fairer filament
Has fallen; flow’r and leaf
Slumbers where wretch and prince preside
Bound for its steadfast sheaf
Moment folds over moments
Ephemeral eclipse
Of petals, poems and parting
And then its present slips
Into the crypt of ‘bygone’
An unrelenting plot
Of had and held remembered
And none exhumes its lot
The remora of hours
Does not release its prey
It drinks a field of flowers
And turns raven to gray
November’s stark procession
Bows where its laughter fell
Its dirge, a somber silence
Beneath Time’s evening bell
© Janet Martin
Thursday, November 21, 2013
If Poetry Disappeared...
The world would not stop turning
For loss of verse
But the heart would
Stop burning
and racing
or chasing
the flirt of
elusive word
and the world would not notice
the absence of it
for the most part
but oh,
the light in the eye,
the path to the heart
the half-breath ocean stirred
the beauty of thought
or anguish-born jot
would never bring a smile
or a tear
and the poet would mourn
the day he was born
if verse would disappear…
© Janet Martin
Stone-cold
Image source; wikipedia
Writer's Digest PAD challenge, day 21
For today’s prompt, write a secret message poem.
they looked
past the astonishing detail
past the painstaking hours
past the passion
and the pride,
past the poetry,
the tears,
the tenderness,
the love,
and then they said,
how much do we owe you?
© Janet Martin
Until all that Remains is Farewell
It tugs at the heart-strings…
Those in-severable ties
Reinforced, it seems
By life’s little good-byes
When grief runs its river
In tender tear-stream
As keenly we ponder
The end of a dream
How sad to stop living
Before life is spent
To choose futile grieving
And longing’s lament
…when time keeps on turning
A balm in its grasp
To succor our yearning
With what yet must pass
Life tugs at our heart-strings
Its ‘over-and-done’
The ravishing echo
Of love’s cherished song
Live, love and laugh, then
For no one can tell
When we will be ushered
To our last farewell
© Janet Martin
Charcoal Flower-gardens
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. ~CHARLES DICKENS~
Pristine; pencil-patterns
Lure the wand’ ring eye
To charcoal flower-gardens
Etched against the sky
Nature spares not one season
But stuns our eager gaze
With beauty beyond reason
In rampant God-spun ways
The tree that bore bud-jewel
Then fanned the weary brow
Before its grand apparel
Fell, just before the snow…
…is not stripped, then forgotten
But spreads its filigree
Like charcoal flower-gardens
Across earth’s frozen lea
© Janet Martin
Hubby simply shakes his head when I laugh out loud in
disbelief because a barren tree can be so breath-taking-ly beautiful!
The Hidden Cost
Writer's Digest PAD challenge, day 21
For today’s prompt, write a secret message poem.
its cavern gapes beneath her skin
electronic friends expand its void
their 'selfies' cannot share her pain
somehow technology destroyed
the most important thing of all
she feels as though she has no choice
eight hundred friends; no one to call
oh, how she craves the sound of 'voice'
Janet Martin
okay, the message isn't very secret...I'll try again if I can:)
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