Coming Spring~

Cover photography by my sister, Emma Catherine Smith.

She is the delicate little flower

Encircling her wicker bower,

A weaving, searching, climbing tower

Seeking to reach high.

She is the song the peepers sing,

The pond alive as echoes ring.

The songbirds which again take wing

And dance along the sky.

She is the scent of sodden earth,

Plants and creatures given birth,

Beauty and newness well beyond worth,

Bidding Cold farewell. 

She is the wind beneath the flight

Of returning geese with feathers white,

The soothing healer of Winter's bite,

The color of the bluebell. 

She is the whisper of new life,

Repeller of Frost's chilling knife,

To end the bleak, unceasing strife,

The voice of all who sing.

She is the fragrance in the air,

The answer to the desperate prayer

Of those longing for the weather fair...

She is the coming Spring.

Copyright Hannah Scarlett 2013