Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Most-welcomed Harbingers

Is there any face friendlier than those first flower-grins?!



Crocus, violet, pansy, oh,
Daffodil-strewn glade
Purple-yellow harbingers
Leading spring's parade

Of all earth’s countless, bount’ous blooms
Are any sweeter found
Than those first gold and purple plumes
Breaking dormant ground?

…for when their first, fair grins we ken
Hearts sing loud with glad praise
As winter yields to spring again
Then sweet, sweet summer days


© Janet Martin

Woven Need





We are woven Need
Need to breathe, need to eat, need to love,
Need to pray, need to trust the Provider
Which these Need-creatures wove

© Janet Martin

Not Easier But Better...




Those days were no easier but oh, they were better! 
These days gone as well;-))

Writer's Digest PAD Challenge day 27: For today’s prompt, write a take off poem.

What lovely days back then
When business-worlds shut down
One day a week and everyone
Stayed out of stores in town
To sit upon a porch
On Sunday afternoon
Or stroll with family among
Spring’s forget-me-not bloom

What lovely days they were
One day a week for prayer
To worship the Creator
For the blessing of His care
To pause from toil’s demand
To picnic with a book
To linger in the hammock
Or to dally by the brook

...and on each Sunday morn
The steeple bells would toll
And worshipers would gather
 To consider God and soul
Awed by the sacred size
Of man's few days on earth
When that which never dies
Reveals its sacred worth

No expectation wore
The work-a-day man cold
With seven-day appointments
For a boss thirsty for gold
...because one day a week
The work-world took a break
What lovely days they were
Lost for a dollar’s sake

© Janet Martin




Tuesday, April 26, 2016

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