Moments

Moments

The crocuses bloomed today, the first for Spring 

Beautiful colors 

Visitors today 

walked and played 

the fresh smell of spring and sunlight in her hair 

Today’s “morning – glory” of flowers 

Unfurl into full bloom

Morning glory that hoists the soul

Moments and Windows that can quickly disappear 

Therefore, a moment we fill with joy of living

Overflowing, every bit of daylight used,

Creating Time, knowing that it passes so quickly

Blink and the moment changes to a grand time 

Blink again, and the moment beautifully fades

Windows—much shorter than you care to imagine 

People and relationships that occupy your life.

Moments of leaning

Moments of dreaming

Windows of seeing through joy and energy that gives life

Moments (reel)

Moments, Glimpse poetry by Joe Holuta

About this poem: Moments is a poem about realizing that time can be created to enable moments [windows] that we value and cherish with family and friends. “Specific windows—much shorter than you care to imagine or admit—during which certain people and relationships will occupy your life.” (Sahil Bloom)

- Joe Holuta 

Lenten Ashes

Lenten Ashes (reel and song)

Lenten Ashes

Ashes to ashes 

Dust to dust 

“ memento mori”

All is fleeting 

“Like trying to embrace the wind”

Ashes swept away 

“Dust to earth returns”

“Our frame is frail

He knows what we are made of 

Remembers we came from dust” 

The fleeting, passing mist, vapor, seasons, pursuing wind, blows as it will, slipped through your fingers, vanishes like a mist.

 

Our life has seen the sparks fly high in colorful wonder

The dark has been made light 

Love to us in desperate times, "treasured in our hearts"

We pass this love to others for the same hope, same light, and life eternal 

Stories by the fire, sparks light up the tale

warmth all around 

Young one’s imaginations,

eyes wide in wonder 

The older - children at heart again

“From the ashes you’ve raised”

All vividly create and build on each other's tale and pass on the memories of this night

Lenten Ashes - Glimpse poetry by Joe Holuta 

About this poem: Lenten Ashes is a poem, words I’ve read and thought about on Ash Wednesday this year. I haven’t participated recently, but I’ve thought about it for many years each year that Lenten ashes are given to remember the brevity of life and the importance of [waking and living each day Like it’s your first day]. We pass this love to others to spark hope As we recall, wonderful lives in vivid detail. -Joe Holuta

1. Memento mori (Latin for "remember (that you have) to die -invitation to reflect on the brevity of life and the vanity of human ambitions.
2. Ecclesiastes 1:14 (Voice)
3. Ecclesiastes 12:7
4. Psalm 103:14
5. Ecclesiastes trend of phrases

Snow Covered Memorial Stones

Snow covered memorial stones 

Snow covered stones with those

we love below

Names covered - “How will they know

It is us that lie?” 

Far beneath the fields of white 

As the snow is brushed gently away

The names chiseled deep 

In the granite face speak 

Years of birth, and passing 

The dash, the life lived

The years were precious and lived

as meant to be 

But I wanted to think if I had another day, 

What would it be? 

“Heading toward this day my whole life”

Just think if Julia or Pete had not lived? Near 70 they aged

Saw four lives pass on while living- Dorothy, John, George and Wash

My dad wouldn’t have been, 

Nor me, nor mine, or theirs

Such a vast loss I could not conceive 

The Sun is shining on this bitter, cold,

Wintry day 

Blanketed gravestones still, unnoticed 

The shadows know and hear below

Wipe away the snow and see- the fond and cherished family that made me

Snow Covered Memorial Stones, Glimpse poetry by Joe Holuta 

About this poem: Snow Covered Memorial Stones is a poem about a thought I had while walking a road I’ve walked many times but today I paused when I saw snow covered memorial gravestones of my relatives.

The sun was shining and shadows cast by the stones, but the names were covered with snow. I dusted off the flurry of snow and saw their names and the years of their lives and had fond memories of how precious they were -though I did not know them well or at all. The impact of our lives are much more than the length and years we live. The substance, the love, integrity, and values we live by - live on. - Joe Holuta

Carpe Deum (seize God)

Carpe Deum (seize God)

Seize the Day 

Life

Runs deep and far and wide

Gather the rosebuds along the way*

Life

A garland of grace for you

The present is a gift

Azure sky of bluest blue

A call of unraveling today- waves retreating 

“Oh, where has the time gone? The tide has moved quite far out now.”

Take hold of God

Today a “link to eternity”

Put away that fear 

Why run in the other direction 

The Author, the only One who sees us within, is capable 

Lay hold of The Light

The sky stunning blue

The shadows fall longer on the shore as the sun is setting

The Passage of time

“A perfect peace, a mind stayed on thee” **

Those we love looking on

A “bevy of bright eyes” paying attention,

seeing the past as light to the present

- unmoved and fixed on the future 

Closely watching and cannot look away 

 

Carpe Deum (seize God),  Glimpse poetry by Joe Holuta - Inspired by holy is the day, Living in the Gift of the Present, by Carolyn Weber

About this poem-  Carpe Deum *** (seize God) is a poem about seeing God in the everyday. Many times we’re challenged to seize the day, to get everything possible out of life. A drive like this can be exhausting and not fulfilling as initially expected. At times we seek everywhere for meaning or direction when God knows us best and values us beyond our wildest dreams and is capable to see us through to beautiful days and lives ahead. - Joe Holuta

*“Yes, gather the rosebuds, to the glory of God. He will weave each one into ‘a garland to grace your head and present you’ (Prov 4:9)

**  “You, Lord, ·give [preserve/keep in] ·true peace [complete peace; peace, peace]·to those who depend on you [whose mind is stayed on you; whose purpose is firm],because they trust you.”

Isaiah 26:3 EXB

*** Carpe Deum (seize God) - holy is the day, Living in the Gift of the Present, by Carolyn Weber