A lifetime of words could never be enough...
For my wife Christy Ann Martine. ❤️🌹
John Mark Green is a poet and a writer of short fiction, living in Ontario, Canada. He is the author of five books, two of which are co-authored with his wife, poet Christy Ann Martine.
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
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Saturday, October 11, 2025
Beside the Dark River - Poem
Beside the Dark River - a poem by John Mark Green
Sometimes we need someone who will sit with us in the midst of our pain.
Thursday, October 9, 2025
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Thursday, September 11, 2025
Lover and Friend poem
A love poem that I wrote with my wife Christy Ann Martine. This poem is included in our book The Light You Need II: Romantic Love Poetry
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Lose Ourselves
Let the world outside
forget us for a while,
as we lose ourselves
in these moments together.
Even when we don’t speak,
the silence is charged
with magic and meaning.
Hearts have their own language,
and ours are always speaking.
— John Mark Green / Lose Ourselves
Sunday, August 24, 2025
The Real Measure of Love
The deepest love will not abandon you in your despair and weakness. It will find you in the darkness, take your hand, and not let go.
- John Mark Green
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Wedding Poem: My Undeniable Miracle
I'm happy that couples have been using this poem as part of their wedding celebrations, and I'm grateful to the wedding websites Love My Dress, The Knot, and One Fab Day for including My Undeniable Miracle in their suggested wedding readings. Here is the full-length version:
My Undeniable Miracle
I don't know why things happen the way they do— Why so much of our lives have been spent in heartache and disappointment. Wrong timing. The wrong people. Unhappy situations. Not being our best and truest selves.
What I do know is that in you, I have finally found all I never dared dream I could deserve or have—the kind of love that is rare. Being known in a way that touches the deepest parts of me. Accepted in a way that blows my mind.
In you, the love I have always desired to give now has a place to call home. I have been a skeptic, but you are my undeniable miracle. The questions don't matter anymore. We have finally found each other, and that is enough.
John Mark Green
(Shorter version in the image below)
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