The staccato tap of ice-rain since 8:00 this morning, writes sentimental songs...
Like a bow drawn, soft on heartstrings
The music of life is wrought
Pray the mist that wreaths its parting
Frames more than fanciful thought
Like a gourd out-poured in echoes
Time is an ephem’ral tryst
Farewells synchronized with hellos
Veiled in velvet amethyst
Like a mother waving, waiting
At the window as night falls
Pinning where daylight is fading
One more picture to love’s walls
Like a tempest in slow motion
Morn-noon-night drains heaven-jars
Filling the heart with an ocean
And the eye with slippery stars
© Janet Martin