A Spring in my Step…
A happy little poem
Like a lamb set free
my heart leaps!
Arms open
W I D E
I embrace
Spring!
*
My back turns against
Winter
It’s l o n g grip broken.
“Good Riddance!”
to grim gales that
cut to the bone.
*
Watery darts
flung from gloomy firmaments
Icy marbles
hurled onto defenceless skeletal shrubs
Heartless hail
ricocheting on frost bitten earth.
*
Spring
summons
a shy
Sun
“Come out and play!
Chase those woeful winter ills away.”
*
Happy to help
sick of being sidelined many months
The Sun
flips a switch
bathes my world in
wonderful warm rays.
*
Soon
I shed scarf, beanie and coat
Birds warble; buds burst forth from
bare branches
Jasmine w a f t s on
benevolent breezes.
*
Plover parents
patiently
guard vulnerable eggs
Foolishly Habitually
laid on a
tiny traffic island.
*
Swamped by an
ocean of school car parking
Vicious vehicles and sticky beak students
‘Sharks’ circle,
Ravenous
for a tasty morsel…
*
Diligent ‘plover patrol’ is
duly rewarded…
Yesterday,
the Proud Parents
shepherded two gangly chicks
To ‘tranquil waters’.
*
Spring’s here!
Heralding holidays!
I breathe a
sigh of relief.
It’s time to
Relax, Rejoice and Rejuvenate.
*
Inspired by nesting Masked Lapwing Plovers and the welcome arrival of Australian Spring holidays.
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Comments (10)
I had no idea that bird existed Angie! Thank you for introducing me to it! How fascinating! You captured their behaviour so well in this poem!
Marvelous writing Angie! BRAVO!
Summer is still hanging on tight where I am and I'm wishing for fall while you are experiencing the birth of spring. I love that this world is so interesting and different. Great job!
Here I am, at the end of the summer, with the sun still out and pleasant temperature, reading this poem and missing the spring already. Well done, Angie!
Literally a world away. Grey autumnal drizzle here, not even mist or mellow fruitfulness to redeem it. Got room for a visitor? :-)
Hehehehehehe I'm so happy to see that you're happy! Loved your poem!
Lovely Angie. Such a happy expression of the changing seasons that expresses the change of season, and I am sure many appreciate. It bounces along really nicely.
Particularly enjoyed the "shy sun"--the feeling of warmth building. Lovely personification, Angie.
This was so happy! It's finally warm today, and I'm so glad winter's over!
So well written Angie. I’m also glad spring is here 🥰