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;-)

This Which We See...

This which we see is always more

Than we can realize

And every moment, like a door

Hinged to a future prize

Misunderstanding breeds our ‘why’

The picture that we see

Cannot with its portion descry

That which waits yet to be

How small the visage of man’s thought

How All-in-all is He

Who sees what earth-dimmed eyes cannot

Love’s flawless majesty

Then we who still see, but in part

From steppingstone to stone

Trust He who sees the perfect art

After His work is done

© Janet Martin

 For now we see through a glass, darkly; 

but then face to face: 

now I know in part; 

but then shall I know even as also I am known.

1 Cor. 13:12

Life's Getting Ahead Exercises

PAD Challenge Day 25; For today’s prompt, write an exercise poem.

One Step Forward,

Two steps back

Slip-trip, sprawl-fall

Try again, Jack

One day up, love

…next day down

Life, a mess of

Smile and frown

Work, work, work

And bills, bills, bills

Climb time’s line of

Hills, hills, hills

Kneel and pray

Then stand up tall

Life is a

Day-by-day call

Love, love, love

And give, give, give

These will measure

How we live

Government

Will almost break

Our will with

Take, take, take

© Janet Martin

Whenever you hear this; 'paid by the government of Ontario',

I reminded a student in our household, 'what they should actually be saying is, 'paid by the people of Ontario'.

Nothing is free.

This poem is an offspring of frustration over ever rising costs of living, hidden 'fees' and astronomical taxes which we seem to see less and less fruit of...

but this poem is also balanced with humble awareness of all we have to be thankful for:)