Sunday, February 28, 2016

Before It Is Too Late





Because we can’t take it all in
Each new day is a span
Of God-lent opportunity
To do all that we can

…to touch and taste and hear and see
From a bounteous buffet
Of sight and sound, the Majesty
Of He who shapes each day

Before this breath of life is spent
Before God seals time's gate
Let’s live its days in wide-eyed praise
Before it is too late

© Janet Martin

It is more than we can take in, agreed Victoria and I yesterday as we drank in the glory of a dazzling landscape....

Have a Wonder-full. Worshipful  Sunday!


Saturday, February 27, 2016

God Only Knows...





The heart can be a hollow
Full of fantasy
Tortured by the taunt of
What may never be

The heart can burst with hunger
Trespassers of thought
Wrench from guarded corners
Monuments of naught

The heart can break while beating
Ache with soundless pleas
Weighted with the whisper
That bends rigid knees

The heart can hurt with wishes
Inept to disclose
What this skin-cup harbors
And God only knows

© Janet Martin



Spell for Me a Picture (A Poet's Greatest Pleasure)





Spell for me a picture
Form with font of ink
Morning mutely moving
Dark awry with pink

Whisper with word-wonder
Meadows plush with plume
Bergamot and bell-flow’r
Pouring out their bloom

Pen upon plain paper
That which steals our sighs
Paint a poem-picture
Of love’s laughing eyes

…and where fall has fallen
Press upon the page
Frozen fallow flecked with
Silvered sedge and sage

Draw for me a doorway
To a land of dreams
Where wild havens flower
Beneath sapphire streams

…and the hour tinctures
By the pow’r of word
Picture over picture
That a pen has stirred

© Janet Martin


I'm reading the journals of L.M. Montgomery.
Even in her youth she had the gift of being able to pen powerful pictures!

Friday, February 26, 2016

Free For The Looking~


Is there anything more dazzling than a sun-splashed ice-ensconced world?! 

(I know, this is kinda like looking at someone else's vacation pics after a while...
very nice but never quite like being there:-)

I feel like we were treated to a from-God-vacation to ice-land.

Melissa (daughter) is going to Iceland at the end of May. 
I just messaged her to tell her if she wants to save money she could come home right now!
(I don't think she will think my joke is very funny;-)

Before our our eyes,
Beneath our feet,
Above our heads
 What joy God took
In spreading out a paradise
Free for the taking
If we simply...
Look!

© Janet Martin



Because this ice-storm passed without the headaches of downed hydro-wires, we could simply sit back and enjoy each 'Oh-Lord-my God-when-I-in-awesome-wonder moment!







Behoovements



 On a morning like this it is not hard to 'Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise' Ps.100:4

Soon after the previous post the sun broke through the cloud-bar and I could ooh and aah to my poet-soul's content!



Since we are short on time
And long on eternity
It behooves us to employ
Life’s moments thoroughly

Since none of us can tell
How soon death’s bell will toll
It behooves us to prepare
For the home of the Soul

Since we are Here a bit
And There forevermore
It behooves us to consider
Who we are Here for

© Janet Martin