Spring | Teen Ink

Spring

March 9, 2012
By bookthief PLATINUM, Concord, Massachusetts
bookthief PLATINUM, Concord, Massachusetts
20 articles 0 photos 58 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." -- John W. Gardener


God, it's spring again,
I'm caught unprepared -
too quickly I will list
my spring cleaning to-dos:
I'll forget how to hear
bitter ice crystals and snowfall
I'll listen to breezes
and spring rain
I'll remember how to find
flowers & birds in silence.

Again I will find wings
again I will find sunshine
again I will wave in the wind
with squirrels who find
only rotten nuts in snowmelt:
now I will find no bounty,
no extras, no physical betterment:
it is not spring of saffron crocuses
but March of Circle sunshine.

This is not what I meant to write:
soft sunshine words, I would
convey the feeling of friendship and harmony,
the joy of flowers poking through grass
no, but instead try
the constant give-and-take
of sunshine on your face like heaven
mixed with the wet ground soaking through clothes
because spring is not just light & tree buds
and the birth of the new,
it is snowmelt and the scent of water on the wind
and the revelation of what has been all along.



Similar Articles

JOIN THE DISCUSSION

This article has 0 comments.