Happy Poetry Day! ~ Springing

Soft fuzz forms on the tips of blooms to come.

They plump with anticipation.

Birds soar the sky for the first time in months.

Pointing their way to their Northern destinations.

The white landscape turns to caramel under the closer heat.

Hills transform into mounds of sugary sweetness.

Sweet water runs from the maples

Sharing their golden splendor with us.

Seeds itch.

Ground softens.

Bodies transform.

Sun shines.

We are springing.

Thoughts At the Kitchen Sink

If you could spend a day in my body

You would believe.

I have aches and pains

Every day.

I push through it most of the time.

If you could spend a day in my body

You would see.

Beauty is everywhere

You need only look.

My eyes are my greatest gift.

If you could spend a day in my body

You might be surprised.

My inner thoughts are true.

My personality is real.

I am genuine.

If you could spend a day in my body

You would know.

I know I am judged by the way I look

Not what is inside, to some.

What is inside is so much more

Than what you see on the surface.

If you could spend a day in my body

Then I could spend a day in yours.

Then there would be complete and total understanding.

Ode of Mothers

Soft, snuggly,

Always loving,

Always giving.

They make everything feel right and good.

With their hugs,

Their kisses,

Smile,

Eyes.

Thank you mom.

How can this be?

When did this happen to me?

This is more special than anything else in the world!

To be responsible for this life,

This being,

This miracle!

Now there are three!

What a responsibility!

What an honor,

A blessing that they chose me!

I shall do my best

To pass all their tests,

And be the best mom I can be!

(I hope I succeed!)

Mom, what do you want for Mother’s Day?

A question that appears each year.

It makes my head spin,

For I am in a place of honor.

I am in the place I have put my own mother.

Now we share the honor together.

Not only once a year as we remember and celebrate,

But every day.

We are mothers.

Every day,

Every hour,

Every moment.

Forever.

Thank you mom.

Nature

The smell of the first snow fall.

Looking at individual snowflakes.

The magical wonder of a snowy landscape.

Sparkling snow.

Lying down in the moist, green grass of spring.

Wiggling your toes in perfectly sun-warmed sand.

Walking outside and smelling spring in the air after a long, cold winter.

Luscious shades of green taking over the woods.

Dew.

Seeing the fawns play in the yard.

The sight of colorful blooms breaking forth out of the ground.

Sitting on a dock bathing in the hot sun with the cool lake beneath you.

Lying in a boat in the middle of the beautiful, blue lake and looking up at the sky.

Sunsets.

The sound of the brook gently trickling through the yard while I swing on the hammock.

Brilliant color displays on the trees every fall, like nature’s fireworks.

The smell and feel of dirt on my hands.

Frost.

Seeing birds soar.

Just a few of my loves in nature that make me feel one with the Earth.

What are yours?