Love Now!

Love now, for who knows how many todays we still have left

Before we bow our heads to mourn upon a grave, bereft

Love now; there is no guarantee beyond it save this, death

Thus we should love each other with each precious, gifted breath

Love now, do not hold back what we are able to out-pour

For even now death comes a-stealing to somebody’s door

Love now, tomorrow might be too late to state the unsaid

When all that we have left of love are memories we’ve made

© Janet Martin

My mother-in-law lost a dear friend and neighbor today; a mother, grandmother, great-grandmother. She touched oh, so many lives in her lifetime and will be dearly missed. We should look around and love now for now is all we have. 

I remember my Grandmother often cautioning her grandchildren 'the old will die but the young can die' reminding us to value life and love and to be ready when That Last Awesome Call comes. 

Blue Is The Color of Good-bye

 Surveys in the US and Europe show that blue is the colour most commonly associated with harmony, faithfulness, confidence, distance, infinity, the imagination, cold, and sometimes with sadness wikipedia

Blue is the color

On the spectrum

Between

The now

That is

And the what-

Has-been

Darling, the air is

Saturated

With hello

Where I

Underestimated

The longevity of

Good-bye

Blue is a bastion

Its ether hold

Throbs with 

the past in

Juxtaposed

Eons

Of gold

Blue in boundless

Shades

Fills Time's pleading eyes

Bleeding with the aftermath

Of

Inevitable

Goodbyes

© Janet Martin

Linking to wikems today:)

Good-bye Vera Wideman. Rest in Peace.

Hugs and prayers to you, Keith and Dar
on the loss of dear Mother.

Blue Everywhere

Wikem again:) care to try one? You never know where a prompt will take you. Hop on and see?! Everyone welcome on the wikem-train!

  there is no blue pigment in blue eyes. Distant objects appear more blue because of another optical effect called atmospheric perspective.  wikipedia

Ether illusion

Whimsical When

Draining an ocean

To fill a pen

Darling of dreamers

Lost lullaby

Summer forever

Cupped in your sigh

Belle of a brave heart

Boast of bygone

Blanket of God-art

Breathtaking yon

Banter of breezes

Decanter drained

Into embraces

Barely contained

Slip of a whisper

Spills to the air

Stirring the silence

Blue everywhere

© Janet Martin

The Blue of You...

 Another wikem.

Blue:The modern English word blue comes from Middle English bleu or blewe, from the Old French bleu, a word of Germanic origin, related to the Old High German word blao.^[2] The clear sky and the deep sea appear blue because of an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering. When sunlight passes through the atmosphere, the blue wavelengths are scattered more widely by the oxygen and nitrogen molecules, and more blue comes to our eyes. Rayleigh scattering also explains blue eyes; there is no blue pigment in blue eyes. Distant objects appear more blue because of another optical effect called atmospheric perspective. Wikipedia

You stun in sweep of sanguine sky,

And splay in surge of sea

Mirrored like summer in blue eyes

Then caught inside of me

You wander where the fence-line curves

And dips toward the lane

Your bachelor-button vim and verve

Cups canticles of rain

You linger lonely in the dusk

Then light the wick of dawn

You bend the air when breeze is brusque

With dust of days long gone

You drench the waves that wash the graves

Of July-jilted dreams

And drape your denim-tenured gaze

Through yesterday's requiems

You clothe the sprawling afternoon

That always disappears

Into the fabric of your swoon

Like forget-me-not tears

© Janet Martin

Missing Heaven...

Little glimpses here where heaven and hell are juxtaposed!

Imagine

Missing out

On everything that matters

Trading it

For doubt

And dirt-nothings that shatter

Imagine

Not ever knowing

Why this was worth it all

Because we didn’t answer

When we heard

God call

Imagine

Never loving

Beyond what

We can see

Then never fully experiencing

Everything

Love will be

© Janet Martin