Violet

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your scent
a kiss of spring
beguiling

Silent Worship

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Quaker bonnets hold the world
in the light with their prayer
of pale blue and yellow.

Opening

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The maple unfurls
her first blossoms
opening all possibilities.

Sun Gazing

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Mirror of beauty,
trumpet of spring –
narcissus oh narcissus.

Feathers

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Under the spell of spring
even trees seems to feather out.

Magic

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The willow’s wands emerge
spinning gold.

Magic Carpet

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Soft enough for fairy feet
a luxuriant moss
carpets the woodlands.

Dearest Pine

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offers color all through winter
and presents a profusion of green vitality
in these last heartless days before the blooming of spring.

Warrior

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The green swords of spring unfurl
winning their duel with winter.

Yearning

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A weed’s bloom from last fall
feeds my hunger for flowers.

Melt

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As the earth softens
spring finds hospitality
in the primordial offering of mud.

Surfacing

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From the cold, dark earth
emerges the noble daffodil
shouldering its way to the sun.

Reprise

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Snow laden pine
bows to the birch
winter takes a curtain call.

Singing

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Melting snow gives voice
to the brook’s song of spring.