Showing posts with label mother of the bride. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mother of the bride. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

The Beginning of You



Writer's Digest PAD Challenge kicks off with two-for-two-Tuesday! Topic; Write a beginning poem and an ending poem!

The beginning of you
Ended the girl I knew
For quite another
...for when we met, my dear
I watched her disappear
as I became a Mother

Endings become beginnings
This is Time's ageless endeavor
But one thing will never end, my dear
For a mother is a mother forever

Janet~





Wednesday, September 4, 2013

When a Child Leaves Home...





Sometimes I think the house will be too empty when you leave
And the rooms too bare
And I’ll miss the way you leave your things
Lying everywhere
And sometimes I think your house will feel unfinished
Without us
And maybe you’ll miss the way I used to scold
And tidy and fuss
I’ll miss that fourth I love you, and that fourth
And I know, even in the excitement you know
You’ll miss it too
But then I remember how new love fills up
Those old and bygone spaces
And how the new in time becomes the dear and
Old familiar places
And I would never withhold from you
The joy of this new life breaking
And I thank God and pray His blessing on
New memories in the making…

Love, Mom~
© Janet Martin

Sunday, August 18, 2013

Mother of the Bride




Oh, do not look too closely
How her filament of youth
Has drifted to the pastures
Where its prey denies that truth
And do not look too closely
Lest her smile of brave disguise
Tells of sorrow in her gladness
As you look into her eyes

Oh, do not look too deeply
She is strong but not too much
You would be her sure undoing
Troubadour of tender touch
Oh, and do not whisper softly
Joy and grief align, you know
As she recalls another bride
A few swift years ago

Oh, do not look too closely
Joy and mourning coalesce
But she wears its meek adorning
With a smile of happiness
For she too was once a dreamer
Now an ocean breaks inside
As they turn to see her daughter
To the tune ‘here comes the bride’

© Janet Martin

Beginning that mental preparation:)