Happy Spring Greeting

Happy First Day of Spring!

Gramma finally relented a few days ago

(because we were only a few sleeps away from the date circled on the calendar)

when granddaughter was promised she could finally use 'her favorite teapot')

We garnished our mint-leaf tea with dried marigold and recalled the day we harvested them

while dreaming of delightful garden days to come...

The sun tangles in tresses, still barren, where spring’s debut

Caresses sod and soul with notes of an emerging tune...

The sun tangles in tresses, still barren, where spring’s debut

Caresses sod and soul with notes of an emerging tune

Hope and delight ignite ballads of blossoms coming true

Contentment like a butterfly breaks from winter’s cocoon

And joy peals from a belfry that we sense but cannot see

As Nature keeps God’s promises of what will always be

The breezes tease us with visions of verdant countryside

Hillsides and brook banks beckon us to linger on earth’s loom

To revel in impressions of a trove of gates flung wide

As buds begin to breathe and bulging bulbs burst into bloom

And robins sing a song of spring and Reason dares to dance

As gladness finds fresh anchors in life’s sea of circumstance

The snow recedes like ebbing tides from winter-weary shores

Dawn is an eager child dashing across time’s gleaming sands

Dreams tiptoe, careful not to arouse Old Man Winter's snores

We, well aware of streets soon winnowed by time’s gleaning hands

Grapple once more with tug of wars, beauty and duty spun

On how to make the most of moments melting in the sun

© Janet Martin

For, lo, the winter is past,

The rain is over and gone;

The flowers appear on the earth;

The time of the singing of birds is come,

And the voice of the turtle

Is heard in our land;

The fig tree putteth forth her green figs,

And the vines with the tender grape

Give a good smell

.

Song of Solomon 2:11-13