Keeping the Spring-Faith

So far we have not  felt anything even slightly green-leaf-ish...

Cling tight to your free season pass

To green-leaf trees and chairs of grass

To blue-sky domes and flower-poems

Cupped in spring’s warm-wind hourglass

The yard, a postcard of white vim

The fence-post, a statue, gray-grim

Will soon be wreathed in scarves bequeathed

By buds waiting to break and brim

Don’t bow your head in sad lament

Or mope without hope, discontent

Soon we will stroll the lilac knoll

Where once-upon-a-winter went

© Janet Martin

...soon we will stroll the lilac knoll

The Bare Facts of Moment-Matter

 

PAD Challenge day 5: For today’s prompt, write an intelligence poem.

“We cannot choose our external circumstances, 

...but we can always choose how we respond to them” 

Epictetus 

In this buffet of day-to day and choices that we make

We reap or bear the consequence of that which we partake

And though ‘looking won’t hurt us’ as the olden adage quips

Nor will grand gazing help us to enjoy the benefits

…and what perhaps we scoffed a bit with youth’s intelligence

When we thought life was bigger than its flicker of intents

Hits us hard with the truth we were forewarned about by peers

How, how we use mere moments is the dividend of years

The bare fact of the matter in the matter of tick-tock

Is a subtle undoing that can come as quite a shock

As what we once considered 'stuff' of little consequence

Gathers the fluff of moments into rightful recompense

© Janet Martin

Three more scoops of vegetable soup, I encourage as she eyes the 'dessert'. 

(because 'eat your vegetables' matters!😋

To Mortal Intellectuals of Varying Degrees...

PAD Challenge day 5: For today’s prompt, write an intelligence poem.

 Thus says the LORD, 

 "Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, 

and let not the mighty man boast of his might, 

 let not a rich man boast of his riches;  

but let him who boasts boast of this, 

that he understands and knows Me, 

that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, 

justice and righteousness on earth; 

for I delight in these things," 

declares the LORD.…

Jer.9:23-24 

Before one biased breath boasts about Self’s ‘noteworthy’ show

Before one thought brags about strength in a weak moment, oh

Before the truth is proven of how much we really know

It behooves us to reckon the kind grace whereby we go

Before we claim the honor or the ownership of gifts

Look up to where a breath of air the breadth of heaven shifts

And recognize Who paints the skies and downcast eyes uplifts

And grounds us on the dirt that sings with miracles of His

© Janet Martin

Case Closed

PAD Challenge day 4: For today’s prompt, take the phrase “Case (blank);” replace the blank with a word or phrase; make the new phrase the title of your poem; and then, write your poem. Possible titles include: “Case of Water,” “Case in Point,” “Case Study,” and “Case of the Missing Person.”

I hope everyone has a case of easy poeming today!

In case you think

That you could do

Anything to estrange

My love for you

Though act disappoints

And I might disapprove

It can never affect

My measure of love

for you

ever,

Forever

Case closed.

Love, mom

©(aka Janet Martin)

From moms to their sons and daughters...
when you hurt
So do I
When you are disappointed
So am I
When you're happy
I'm happy too!

Case You Wonder If You're The Only One...

PAD Challenge day 4: For today’s prompt, take the phrase “Case (blank);” replace the blank with a word or phrase; make the new phrase the title of your poem; and then, write your poem. Possible titles include: “Case of Water,” “Case in Point,” “Case Study,” and “Case of the Missing Person.”

I hope everyone has a case of easy poeming today!

 

 What has been will be again,
    what has been done will be done again;
    there is nothing new under the sun.

Eccles.1:9

 

 

…in case you wonder if you’re the only one?

There is nothing, nothing new under the sun

Everything new is but the jaded roar

Of everything said and done before

On time-tried ways to growing old

There is nothing new for us to behold

Still, aren’t you glad there will always be

The wonderful bliss of discovery?

Sometimes for a time, we feel quite set apart

As we weather the weather that weathers the heart

Then, when we wonder if this has been said, felt or done

Remember, there is nothing new under the sun

© Janet Martin

...Case You're Wondering If I Wish You Wouldn't Talk So Much

PAD Challenge day 4: For today’s prompt, take the phrase “Case (blank);” replace the blank with a word or phrase; make the new phrase the title of your poem; and then, write your poem. Possible titles include: “Case of Water,” “Case in Point,” “Case Study,” and “Case of the Missing Person.”

I hope everyone has a case of easy poeming today!

In this age of texting and all other phone-fixations,

Chatter has become cherished artwork 

even if most of it fades with the hour!

somehow when her kitchen is filled with chatter,

mother doesn't worry so much

if something's the matter

There is nothing quite like children to revive in us the art of 'chattering':)

They love to be talked to and listened to...

...a chat for their ears only on a fine afternoon

 (I wonder if they remember what they were discussing;-)

The ways of words

Ah, who can count

What most will amount to?

The poetry

Of you and me

A blip upon the blue

Our chatter

Yester-afternoon

Has scattered like its hours

The bloom of speech

Forgotten soon

Save a few chosen flow’rs

But I would rather

Hear the chatter

That soon fades away

Than listen to you

Looking at me (or your phone)

With nothing to say

© Janet Martin

Top photo cropped from this performance where at 14 mos. old clatter is as exciting as chatter!