Hello, Spring!

Welcome to Spring: Season of new birth!

Glory in the springtime

Initiates visions without stopping

Greening hills, warming sun

Buds erupting and wildflowers popping

Bears, Bees and Stings

Attuned to the winter cold

Hibernation’s natural to a bear

With shorter days, longer nights

Sleeping is the primary affair

Sentiments of a fall/winter season

Affirm human nature’s lassitude

Reflections echo the past and present

Creating a melancholy mood

The early days of springtime

Find bees at work on the crocus

With the snow at last melting

Activity is the focus

New life buzzing all around

Finds everyone busy as the bee

Making plans, meeting demands

Goes about as far as one can see

Nature in its own pristine beauty

Flourishes after winter’s thaw

Prickly, bristly thorns and spiny things

Emerge clothed in springtime’s awe

Lovers stroll along forest paths

Inhaling the newness nature brings

Spring blossoms within love’s essence

But not without emotional stings

 ©2013
Sharla Lee Shults

"Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night."

                                                         —Rainer Maria Rilke (Bohemian–Austrian poet, 1875–1926)