Tag: Spring

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Ransomed Time

52 Ford

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seasonal changes of ransomed time
coming ’round again in your eyes
when scenes play out in your mind
sepia toned images playing rewind

a summer day on a sunlit beach
walking to the water’s edge
just out of reach
casting long shadows
in our stride
digging for treasures
in the ocean tide

a vacation spent camping
at yosemite park
no pine needles allowed
in the canvas green tent
a diaper laundry line hung
between pine trees
the Coleman stove, the lantern
the sky a starlit sea

winter skies warmed by
the california sun
a metal christmas tree colored
as the color wheel turned
a little girl gazing
waiting anxiously for
christmas ‘morn to come

a spring day showing off
our Sunday best
the elm tree, the ’52 Ford
and all the rest
the smell of vinegar
the strongest kind
hunting easter eggs
our want to find

seasonal changes of ransomed time
coming ’round again in your eyes
when scenes play out in your mind
sepia tone images playing rewind

© March 2013
Renee Espriu

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Silhouettes

sunset winter trees

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sunset on winter trees
glow pink and orange
silhouettes of a forest
an army waiting for
the coming of spring

© January 2013
Renee Espriu

This is for the Small Stone Challenge January 2013. You can find them at http://www.writingourwayhome.com . This is Small Stone #11.

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Song of Lilacs

Purple Lilac

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rain comes down in
torrential rivulets
as wind buffets
the house

a reminder that the
smell of lilacs
carried on spring
breezes

will remain a distant
song carrying me
to the other side of
  stormy seas

© December 2012
Renee Espriu

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Star Dust Applause

when will the knowing come
of when you will need me
before the Spring snow melts
as glacier waters freeing

as tidal pools are not
brimming forth with
ocean creatures spiny life

when celestial heavens
spill forth the stars to
create another Milky Way
 with star dust applause

when will this knowing come
candescent as a candle flame
in your beauty that is you

it will come without knowing
in the richness of your life
like filtered sun into my heart
woven tightly all the threads
amidst vast and cloudless skies

© September 2012
Renee Espriu

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Mellow Yellow Monday

Every year here in the city of Puyallup, they have the Spring Fair. It is not quite as big as the annual fair held in the Fall but just as fun. I found this photo on a site dedicated to some of the goings on at the fair and wanted to share this photo of the pig races. And “They’re Off!”

 

 

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Evidence of Spring

Hyacinths making their way     

toward the sunlight

evidence Spring has arrived

© March 2012 Renee Espriu

Yesterday was our first real warm day of Spring and today promises to be very much the same. Worked in the garden yesterday and this image looks much like the hyacinths that are coming up now in my garden.

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Fluttering Black Taffeta

winter’s sky holds images
winged birds in
flight fluttering
black taffeta
dotting the
horizon

black birds blend in
grey skies
amidst giant
evergreen trees
branches waving

as leafy arms
in the wind but I
remain safe and warm
cloistered within
 home as sanctuary

waiting for warmer breezes
to return along with
voices of songbirds
heralding in
spring

© February 2012
Renee Espriu

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The Hibiscus

Like the hibiscus
waiting
anticipating
Spring and
dead dry leaves
replaced with
new tender shoots to
become shade trees
in a new Summer
she waits
for a new year
in hopes that ill
health will be
replenished
in those she loves
that their spirits
will flourish
no longer held captive
but set free
to ride the currents
of mountain breezes
the eagle calls
it’s home
she waits
like the hibiscus

© December 2011 Renee Espriu