Happy-happy, Happy-happy, Happy-happy SPRING!

 We did it! We weathered another winter!

Here's to all things yellow, 

like sunshine,

 daffodils...

 and dandelions!

Dawn’s first fair fronds fade from the east like flowers felled at frost

Each season spreads earth with a feast for eyes, then comes the sting

Where moments brim with virgin vim then dim; but time’s sure cost

Reciprocates colossal, annual losses with spring

Then bow to the Creator whose splendor no one exceeds

Where braggarts soon deplete their store of self-aggrandizing

Not so with He who cups masterpieces in buds and seeds

And ravishes earth’s winter-skeletal remains with spring

Oh, leap for joy; come, girl and boy, release the inner child

So what if somersaults and cartwheels are but shadow-art

Spring to the world is like the soul set free and laughter-wild

Ah, spring to earth is like God’s grace to winters of the heart

Beneath the funereal facade of winter-spent, ah, hark

Methinks I hear the giggle of a garden snickering

Where hallelujah rends the fabric of day’s too-long-dark

And sparks the song that wakes the waltz that sweeps us into spring

© Janet Martin

'Janet, when will the leaves fall' 

asked Little Girl yesterday.

Well, I replied, a little startled at first!

First, in spring, they hatch from the bud into beautiful children, oops, I mean leaves

 then they bloom like green-teen-twenty-thirty-something flowers all dearest summer long...

 before they fall in autumn when frost on the brow, oops I mean field fells everything...

(Actually my answer was abbreviated to more of a spring-bud, summer-bloom, fall-fall answer😀)