Sound of the Future

PAD Challenge day 6: For today’s prompt, write a poem about a sound.

Busy day-care day today, so for all the glorious ways this prompt could flow they are not mine for now:) oh...wow! They're here!!! early today.

 With cheerful chatter

And pitter- patter

And freckle-splattered nose

With teddy bears

And teeny cares

And running shoes that glow

With darling grins

And dimpled chins

And wonder, full and free

Our children grow

Their future, oh,

Is up to you and me

The sound of something more

Than dash and dance and play and run

Is passing through our doors;

It is the people they’ll become

© Janet Martin

Excerpt from this month's Rural Route magazine... 

Zirconium, Vanadium, Ruthenium, Oh My

PAD Challenge day 5

For today’s prompt, pick an element (like from the periodic table), make it the title of your poem (or part of the title), and then, write the poem. 

The poet prefers worlds

Where war of words attract

Then let the scientist

Explore

The core of -ium fact

The sky is full of gold

The vale, pale amethyst

And when midnight

Is bright with moon

The world is silver-kissed

The earth is like a vault

We scale, scavenge and dredge

We climb a clime

Of emerald

To sit upon time's ledge

Imbibed by common grace

We, common, mortal man

Inhale, exhale

A miracle

Of immaculate plan

The Artist that ordained

The law of gravity

Maintains the wonder

Of it all

In flawless symmetry

The needy deeds of we

With greedy ignorance

Have vexed,

But cannot mastermind 

His kind Omnipotence

© Janet Martin

Impending Endings...or Fifteen...or Lost Afternoons

 PAD Challenge day 4: it's two-for-Tuesday!

Here are the two prompts for today:

• Write a beginning poem. And, of course, when something begins, it often signals something else ending. Soooo, the other prompt is to…
• Write an ending poem. Poem about something ending.

"If only we could drive!" they sighed...

They wait

Where what they’re waiting for

Seems far too far away

A world full of tomorrows

Full of dreams

They dream today

They wait

And do not know how soon

They’ll pry at time’s clenched fist

As they look for

Lost worlds

And girls that no longer exist

© Janet Martin

Daily Celebration

 PAD Challenge day 4: it's two-for-Tuesday!

Here are the two prompts for today:

• Write a beginning poem. And, of course, when something begins, it often signals something else ending. Soooo, the other prompt is to…
• Write an ending poem. Poem about something ending.

Each day is an invitation

To keep on keeping on

A daily celebration

Of what begins at dawn

Each day is a gift from heaven

To prove, lest we forget

Mercy’s soft salutation

‘We are not finished yet’

Each day is like a secret

It spills from ether shells

The very Thing that keeps it

Is the very Thing that tells

© Janet Martin

Grand Victory

  PAD Challenge day 4 (two-for-Tuesday)

Write a beginning poem. And, of course, when something begins, it often signals something else ending. Soooo, the other prompt is to…

Write an ending poem. Poem about something ending.

I guess we know

To begin again

Means simply to renew

With who we are

Right where we are

The best that we can do

To begin again

Is to remember

Lessons we have learned

Where we are wiser

Than we were

Through knowledge we have earned

An end, my friend

Is the beginning

Of what waits to be

And to begin again

Means winning

A grand victory

© Janet Martin