Spring

September 3, 2021September 3, 2021

Glittering Spider Webs

The mornings now are chilled and brisk
dew heavy on lawns and gardens
droplets of water glittering, sparkling
upon spider webs left until the sun
rises upon the horizon and the web
once more catches insects in it’s net

but more note worthy is what will ensue
as the days grow shorter and nightfall
longer announcing a change in Seasons
an introduction to the vibrancy of color

as foliage begins to die but not fade
in each sepia, amber, russet and scarlet
leaf that clings to it’s beginnings
before letting go to settle into sleep
anticipating Spring to begin once again

Photo Taken From Public Domain Pictures & Created As Art

February 19, 2021February 19, 2021

Snow Abates & Winter Remains

The snow is nearly gone now in the aftermath
of the effects of storms in a culmination
of microscopic snow flakes each unique
in their beauty as Nature’s creation
that left a deep blanket of white

leaving once white snow dirty, colored gray
after cleaning the air we breathe, soaking
up dirt particles from the landscape
of houses, cars, fences

even farm animals tidied up in the washing
but the air smells cleaner in the sharply
intense cold that remains a brisk reminder
Winter has not quite gone through an open door
leaving an entrance for Spring’s arrival

The Photo Below Taken From Public Domain Pictures & Created As Art

February 19, 2020February 19, 2020

Iced Sugar Crystals

My studio shown in the early morning sun
as though decorated in tiny sugar crystals

the panes of glass in the windows white
as though painted in a thin sheen of ice

reminding me of another frosted landscape
bristling of crunchy crystal iced patterns

though trees are beginning to show leafy buds
while rhododendron buds look ready to bloom

all signaling that Spring will soon arrive
with a warmth showering landscape with green

Photos Taken From Public Domain Pictures & Created As Art

February 5, 2019

White Outside My Window

White outside my window
speaks of winter not yet done
of Jack frost peering
through curtained panes
as I peer back alone

a snow as blinding a sunny day
drifts ’round the curtains
of my bedroom dark
a light to give
the shadows life
in stillness
of the night

as teetering on the periphery
Spring flowers are in bud
hidden beneath the clouds
in pale of stillness
they doth pose
in silent breath

within the white
outside my window

Photo Taken From Public Domain Pictures & Created As Art

Outside Window

June 5, 2017September 2, 2017

The Season of Becoming

Is this the Winter of her discontent as with
Shakespeare the world around might seem one
that is indifferent to her sadness that age
has besieged her but no it is not so harsh
as the icy cold winds and snow harboring
a breath that will not seek to warm her skin

for it has become like the Season of Summer
where the warming rays of the sun stretches wide
to cover the new growth from Spring that offers
new bright green leaves that will be transformed
into variations of darker greens providing shade
to all of nature’s life beneath boughs of trees

who watch as life is born from tiny tadpoles
becoming frogs to the larvae of dragonflies to
a multitude of birds peering from the safety of eggs
to all beginning a journey of grand proportions
where Fall will see a quiet settling in to harvest
and rest amidst the beauty of all that has become

for stepping into the Winter of her life she now sees
her discontent not as a sadness but as one of observing
all that has come before, all that has become who she is
for it is another beginning and one of transformations
that will show her all the brilliance of her colors
enabling doors to naught hidden as opening to reveal

This is in response to Jamie Dedes’s Wednesday writing prompt. Please read more of the other poets’ replies at https://jamiededes.com/2017/05/31/in-time-displaced-a-poem-and-your-wednesday-writing-prompt. The photo below was taken from the Morgue File and digitized by myself.

Tulips in Snow

February 26, 2017September 2, 2017

Spring Beckons

The birds tremble in the cold morning air
wings flutter beneath the leafy boughs

the air is shot through with bird song
like tiny meteorites dancing in the sky

reminding me that the warmth of Spring
beckons in tiny increments of beauty

as the small pink flowers of succulents
peek out smiling with miniature faces

the tiniest flowers of heather in bloom
for weeks despite the daunting cold

for each morning the bird song’s chorus
awakens me and gives my spirit wings

Photo Taken From Public Domain Pictures & Digitized by Myself

song-bird

April 22, 2014

Life’s Promise*

leaves & petals
from spring flowers
lay limp
awash in a
rainwater puddle
amidst cigarette butts
on the railroad tracks

no longer admonished
or even praised
but part of
life’s discarded
no longer
part of life’s promise

Image In Part From Morgue File Digitized & Enhanced by Myself

July 31, 2013July 31, 2013

Words of Magic

Google Image

reading books is like seeing
endless stories weaving
words of magic
like light filtered
through glass prisms

creating soft rainbows
on the squares of
maple floor that lie
beneath her bare feet

like shifting paradigms
settling adrift as a
snowy blanket of seeds
from cottonwood trees
in Spring

when the rivers run
swift and high
filled with the melting
of snow from Winter

so it is with mixed feelings
that a story ends
as when leaves die and
drift to the ground
in Autumn

she awaits with anticipation
the beginning
of another story
that will weave
words of magic
again

http://dversepoets.com/category/openlinknight/

April 22, 2013April 22, 2013

Orchestrated by Spring

Google Image of Tulip Fields in Washington

purple hyacinths ascend first
to lead the way for
golden daffodils and in
their wake give way to a
multi colored spectrum
of aspiring tulips

all blooming beneath the
white blossoms of the
pear tree and the
pink blossoms of the
formidable cherry tree
waving flowered boughs

while the wind scatters
their petals like bits of
party confetti
they are all a part of
nature’s entertaining
musical endowment

paying homage to life
where each flower that
blooms and wanes becomes
the notes amidst a
tumultuous crescendo
orchestrated by Spring

http://dversepoets.com/category/spring-poem/

April 10, 2013

Yellow Gold

Google Image

daffodils are blooming
blankets of yellow gold
waves covering fields
Spring has arrived
in brilliant fashion

Every year here we have a Daffodil Festival and parade. I have some in a vase in the living room so thought to show you what a field of them looks like here in Washington.