(Precious) Pearl-Storm...

Once more, moments, like precious pearls, mete morning’s gilt-edged gauze... Once more, moments, like precious pearls, mete morning’s gilt-edged gauzeFresh opportunity unfurls its thunderous applauseFor better or for worse, dawn’s river rushes earth and skyWhere we will bless or curse the Giver by how we replyAnd we will surely influence some soul we touch todayWith kindness or indifference, by what we do and say Soon blush and bronze of daybreak dons workaday shoes and huesMoment-pearls spill and roll and bounce through prayers, hopes, dreams and duesThrough thought, through lips and fingertips, pearl-pulsed payoff impendsAs time’s fleet treasure-measure slips to profound dividendsA wonder-storm of glints and swirls; we groan and grin and gaspAh, life; a subsequence of pearls that glimmer through our grasp Before the torrential downpour of moment-pearls subsidesAnd silence tempers the uproar of morn-to-eventidesLet’s live as if today were love’s final pearl-spending spreeBefore God unveils troves that prove the heart's fidelityLet’s pay more earnest heed to the accounting that awaitsOur words and deeds when life’s precious moment-pearl-storm abates © Janet Martin For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Today's workaday shoes are about to get gloriously garden-dirty!😊