It's Been Snowing All Day

No pictures today because I can't find my camera

but I can tell you this...it's beginning to look a lot like winter!

It’s been snowing all day

The world that wallowed, bare and brown

Is tucked beneath a down-duvet

Tossed across countryside and town

It’s been snowing all day

The color-line twixt earth and sky

With white on white is washed away

And definition brushed awry

It’s been snowing all day

The scenery of autumn felled

Beneath a whirl of frosted fray

Where stars with muffled footsteps meld

...and we are torn between

Two melodies that seem to play

The intro to a change of scene

Because it's been snowing all day

© Janet Martin

Expression of Awareness

May we live to remember 

the freedom we enjoy 

whether in outings...

...or ordinary days

...is something we should never take for granted!

For what we have

Someone gave

For how we live

Someone died

Someone who

had families

Who filled them

with love and pride

Someone who

laid hopes and dreams

on lines

they didn’t want to cross

someone who
for freedom’s gain

suffered loss

Should we not then

Reflect in all
we do and say

A love-and-kindness
gratitude

For the freedom we have

Today

© Janet Martin

Sum of It

 PAD Challenge day 10: For today’s prompt, take the phrase “(blank) of (blank),” replace the blanks with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.

one precious 'moment-crumb' in the sum of it!

 

Oh, what will become of it

This which weaves the sum of it

Shaping what we thought we knew

Into revised points of view

Where life’s drill of give and take

Spills into hope and heartache

Turning what we thought we learned

Into degrees not yet earned

Teaching us as we grow old

Thankfulness for what we hold

Waking us to bit-by-bit

Creating the sum of it

Making us, as we proceed

Keened to moment’s potent seed

Where not some but all of it

Will become the sum of it

© Janet Martin

Lifetime of Memories

PAD Challenge day 10: For today’s prompt, take the phrase “(blank) of (blank),” replace the blanks with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.

Oh, the sacred stitches in what slips away with ease
weaving from mere moments a lifetime of memories

That which seems so staying in its present tense of trust

That which keeps us praying as it tries and teaches us

That which makes us humble where we are so prone to pride

That which startles us with ways as old as Father Time

That which rouses laughter up to rafters of blue sky

That for which we weep in utter grief and joy, oh my

That which cheers and vexes, velvet and Velcro infused

That which turns us old with ballet slippers and work boots

That which plants and gathers, grants the lyric to the tune

That which binds and scatters, wind unraveling the bloom

That which grips and itches as it slips through us with ease

Weaves with sacred stitches a lifetime of memories

© Janet Martin