Between Us...

Don’t tell me

Let me look into your eyes

They often say more

Than word-disguise

Don’t worry

About anything but Today

Darling, the future

Is too far away

Don’t fight it

Love is a long-suffering war

But darling, its moments

We are here for

I’d rather

Gather moments and forget the rest

Because, just between us,

We do moments best

© Janet Martin

To Mr. and Miss-understood

PAD Challenge day 26: For today’s Two-for-Tuesday prompt:

• Write a love poem. Or…
• Write an anti-love poem. 

Sometimes I cannot bring myself

To shape thought

Into serviceable words,

Sturdy,

Honest,

Good…  

Love wars, scars, gives, forgives

And is seldom

Understood

Sometimes all the gaudy words

In the world

Are not enough

Better, 

One

Simple,

Uninhibited,

Nothing-expected-in-return

Act of love

© Janet Martin

People-Poetry

PAD Challenge day 26: For today’s Two-for-Tuesday prompt:

• Write a love poem. Or…
• Write an anti-love poem. 

 One of the songs/singer we fell in love with and to...

and still do;-)

He loves politics,     She, poetry

He, a nice goal,         She, a dusk
stroll, He, cheese burger and
fries She, a picnic paradise

Beneath bottomless skies
He loves her and she
loves he, It’s an
opposites attract

Kind of
poet-
ry

© Janet Martin

'How did you two ever get together?' our now-older kids sometimes ask, our differences obvious...

We look at each other,

wink, and tell them

'it was love at first sight'

Is Love

PAD Challenge day 26: For today’s Two-for-Tuesday prompt:

• Write a love poem. Or…
• Write an anti-love poem. 

Like root bears the trunk

And trunk bears the limb

And limb bears the leaf

And leaf bears the hymn

Is love

© Janet Martin

Love is a fine intermingling of holding and letting go...

Love Me Tender...

PAD Challenge day 26: For today’s Two-for-Tuesday prompt:

• Write a love poem. Or…
• Write an anti-love poem.  

 (to hubby)

We’re broke: the coin of fancy words won’t fix our maladies

And promises for things we cannot change will not appease

Poor human-nature tendencies; tell me, what can we do

But simply this, my darling, to love tender, to love true

The dream-girl you invented when we were perfect; sixteen

Has long since disappointed Fantasy’s idyllic mien

And my Mr. Prince Charming was a frog, but I love you

And all that I ask in return is love me tender, true

We’re broke: and joke about it in our half-a-hundred years

And marvel at the way time plays with us then disappears

I shake my head at your small talk, you laugh at how I chew

…we’re perfect for each other, love is tender, love is true

© Janet Martin

I'm not gonna lie...we've had a roller-coaster relationship but we're in it for the long haul...pun intended.

(Hubby is a long-haul truck driver;-)