the promise
always kept
spring’s return
First One Up
dear Johnny
the last to bed
the first to rise
Illuminati
before bursting into being
possibilities illuminate
the breath of every second
Yet
a memory of last summer’s sun
the winter field not yet touched
by the greens of spring
Metamorphosis
winter’s icy caterpillar
gestates spring’s
tender wings of color
Longing
the fruit
of last year’s blossoms
hold a torch for spring
Brief Visit
spring wears white
in polkadot leaves and petal snow
until the wilting sun asks her to go
Prosperity of Petals
exquisite elegance
the flowering tree
animates abundance
Ephemeral May
tiny pink bud
trumpets spring
in blue
It Is Written
the small
writ large
blessing of spring
Wave of Blue
beneath barbed wire
spring infiltrates
the woods
Unveiled
all of the intricacies
of the universe
unfold in the maple blossom
Alighted
beam of sun
alights the treetops
infusing buds with life
Replenished
joy made tangible
those tender greens
make my heart sing
May I
welcome are the clouds
of April’s dappled skies
who shower us with colors
Each Moment’s Bloom
so sweet the day
the air brand new
each moment blooms before me
Peppered Sky
sky peppered with birds
the seasoning of spring
Asylum of Iris
exposed by spring
hidey-hole the burrow’s door
awaits the asylum of iris
Awakening
invisible
is the rousing
of the drowsy woods
To Come And Go
cold must rise in order to leave
every thing comes and everything goes
in nature’s design of time
The Listening World
all of creation
holding its breath
listening for the stirrings spring
Zig Zag
like the teeth of a zipper
brown and ground emerge
opening to spring
Spring Flowering
a rose
of snow
bloomed in March
Summoning Blue Skies
the mountain ridge
the sumac’s reach
the destiny of spring
The Geography of Time
snow recedes
with the mysteriousness
of spring’s birth
Maewyn Succat
in lieu
of four leaf clover
make do
with lichen and ice
Source
within the somber silence
the black and white of things
darkness gestates spring
Courtship
frost feathers the window
even the cold romances spring
Prologue
before the song of spring
the robin can be seen
Victual
big appetite for life
his hunger is for spring