This Day of Days

This Day of Days spills sparkle to our step

And laughter to our lips, song to the soul

At longest last the winds of winter sleep

And kiss of kinder port succors earth’s bowl

Where glaze of ice-white induced suffering

The maiden with ten-thousand shades of green

Extends her baton and touches earth's heart-strings

Transforming barren tree to regal queen

My, my, this Day of days is like a hymn

Of Christmas falling down in middle-May

As we gather around the blooming limb

To sing the carols of this gladsome day

…and we forgive Time for its harsher climes

Knowing full-well it keens a purer thrill

As brooding blast relents to zephyr rhymes

And firesides their fantasies fulfill

This Day of days is heaven’s gift to earth

Like laughter after sorrow’s vale of tears

Nature extols its mercy of rebirth

Banishing winter to Past’s belvederes

© Janet Martin

Visiting Brenda who reminds us constantly that It's a Beautiful Life, sparked a song through a quote she posted by E.B. White

"There is another sort of day that needs celebrating in song — the day of days when spring at last holds up her face to be kissed, deliberate and unabashed." ~ E.B. White