But, In a poem

Soon you would be nothing at all to me

Forgot; thus I save you in poetry

Yesterday’s sun spilled in rivers of gold

Today the sky weeps metallic tears; cold

All that we hold is a bold, calloused wink

Save for a poem sealing whispers in ink

Then, in the sorrow of morrow’s today

Nothing can steal it forever away

Morning is eager to drink noon, then night

Time; a voracious tick-tock appetite

We cater to its appointments of air

Poetry pens its triumph and despair

For too soon all would be nothing at all

Lost to the ages where new pages fall

But, in a poem we traverse once more

Back to the faces and places of yore

Moment, be kind while the mind tries to find

and frame the right pieces we soon leave behind

© Janet Martin

Slip-sliding Away...

PAD Challenge day 22: For today’s prompt, write a release poem.

Rain slips from windows

Leaf slips from tree

Time slips into

A memory

Youth slips so swiftly

Into by and by

Darling, thought’s hunger

Oft slips from my eye

Like rain from a window

Like flowers that fall

Like touch, as you heed to

Life’s beckoning call

I hear lost summers

As winter-song slips

Into the trembling

Of tired fingertips

Want slips in whispers

Where echoes must be

Caught in a river

Released to a sea

Ah, where is that sea

To which all moments slip?

Fueling forevermore

Drip

         by

                    drip

© Janet Martin

 

Of Fireside and Friendly Chair (hubby would testify this is definitely a direction on his compass:)

 I was going to call the person who kicked off their footwear to come and put it away...then I noticed most of it was mine...oops;-(

PAD Challenge day 21: For today’s prompt, pick a direction on the compass, make it the title of your poem, and write that poem.

From north and south, from east and west

Wherever we come from

The one direction we love best

Is that which points us home

The heart for all its dreaming ways

Wherever it may roam

Concedes, no matter where its strays

There is no place like home

The footwear on the rag-mat there

Are worn by those we love

Its fingerprints and crumbs and cares

A sacred treasure-trove

And though the lure of distant quest

Of sea or mountain air

May draw us, north, south, east and west

To taste its fancied fare

…nothing can ever quite compare

With that to which we come

Of fireside and friendly chair

And darling home, sweet home

© Janet Martin

Jim says there is one thing that motivates him every Monday when he leaves; to see how soon he can point the nose of his rig homeward. It is pointed that way now somewhere in the big, white north.

 Most truckers prefer the green backdrop to white:)

Last week this crash reignited fervent prayer for all our trucker-heroes! Thankfully no one was seriously hurt!

We are proud and thankful for our dedicated transport truck-drivers!

 

Heaven Favors Earth With Gold

Heaven favors earth with gold

Morning pours from mercy’s hold

History and mystery

Are juxtaposed, its streams

Like a mystical embrace

Twixt, a new-day-gift of grace

Opportunity a sea

Full-bursting at its seams

Seasons splay upon earth's sod

My, the handiwork of God

Stuns our gaze and wanton ways

With pure and flawless touch

Where we spill our human need

Still He favors Adam’s seed

Touching dust with virgin Must

And heaven-granted Such

Heaven favors hunger’s street

Spills its gold beneath our feet

Does not leave our eyes to grieve

In endless dark, forgot

But dissolves night’s shuttered door

Stating, ‘let there be’ once more

Pouring gold, fold over fold

Upon earth’s wee blue dot

© Janet Martin

Of True Heart's Desire

Morning fills the holes in the lattice-work of limbs...

What do we strive for and for whom and why?

What moves us forward beneath outstretched sky?

When in the gathering of thought we admit

Our reason for living, what is it?

What sets the hearth of our hearts all ablaze?

What, with our eyes shut, consumes our gaze?

If, in Time’s output of years we admit

Our innermost longing, what is it?

What keens our hunger and vexes our thirst?

In life’s plethora of loves who is first?

If in the quiet of night we admit

Our passion and purpose, what is it?

What stirs the song in our spirit to hope?

Who in this free-fall of days helps us cope?

Pray the Lord holy that when we admit

Our true heart’s desire, He is it

© Janet Martin

What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?
 Matt. 16:26

My Excuse for not grumbling about the weather

PAD Challenge day 19:For today’s prompt, write an excuse poem.

I don't believe
in grumbling
about things
like weather
but if I did
...I would

Janet~

Our parent-teacher interviews this evening have been cancelled due to snow squalls!