Showing posts with label respect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label respect. Show all posts

Friday, December 4, 2020

Thumbs Up (face to face or screen to screen)

We, the more mature students in the School of Life have learned or are learning 
not to base self-worth on how many likes or thumbs-up we get, 
but it doesn't mean a little 'thumbs up' isn't kind of like a big cyber
 (or face-to-face) smile/hug/ pat on the back.
Sometimes when I'm tempted to think that someone really couldn't care less
whether I 'like' it or not I think about the big boost of courage
some of those little thumbs-up have given me over the years💗

Our love/hate relationship with social-media, like it or not,
for better or worse, carries a weight of response-ability with it.
So whether to the people we meet on the street, in our homes,
or on social media, let's spread some high-five, smiley-face, thumbs-up love!

1 Thess.5:11
Therefore encourage one another and build each other up,
just as in fact you are doing.



Thumbs up can give someone a lift when they are feeling low 
A boost of confidence perhaps, a little ‘way-to-go’ 
A ‘you are not invisible but worth a smile, a prayer 
A kind nod of approval to fend off fiends of despair’ 

Thumbs up can say ‘hey, you’re okay and worth the while God grants’ 
Thumbs up can put a bounce in steps that somehow lost their ‘dance’ 
So, whether face to face or screen to screen, let’s do our part 
To spill some ‘thumbs-up-happiness’ into somebody’s heart 

Thumbs up is so much better than an emoji to vent 
To satisfy our anger in that spurt of resentment 
Better to walk away than say something we will regret 
Better to give a thumbs up and leave scowls and slurs unsaid 

Time is a tireless teacher; age does not deter him much 
We never outgrow needing someone’s time or tender touch 
A teeny, weeny thumbs up might be all somebody needs 
To fan the flame of courage to wherever Today leads 

© Janet Martin

Friday, April 26, 2013

Everyone Needs to do their Part

  Responsibility is not inherited, it is a choice that everyone needs to make at some point in their life.  - Byron Pulsifer

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For today’s prompt, take the phrase “Everyone (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 could include: “Everyone Thinks I’m Crazy,” “Everyone Knows the World Is Round,” “Everyone Needs to Leave Me Alone,” or whatever it is that everyone is doing (or not doing).

We should not leave for others to do
What can be done by me and you
What a lovely world this world would be
If we all did our part willingly

If we all gave a little more
Instead of stiffly keeping score
If love was our motive freely unfurled
Oh, this would be a wonderful world

Everyone needs to do their part
We are the painters; love is the art
If each of us would do our best
This world would laugh with loveliness

Janet Martin


Monday, December 3, 2012

Longevity of Love





Girls, men are not really
That different from us
We both desire deeply
Respect and love

If we gave to our better halves
The things we hold dear
Perhaps some of love’s struggle
Would disappear

Complicated simplicity
Just you and I
Yet, this thing called love
Can drive us wild

But we are not so different
If we learn to live
Knowing what we both want
We must learn to give

© Janet Martin