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Hi everyone ! In my part of the world it is springtime. But it has been a cold early spring that cherry trees are expected to fully bloom by first week of May. On some nights, it feels like winter still with temperatures at 0 C. So we wait and watch the rain soak the garden & bare fields. We wait until the colors return to the flowers & trees.

Spring is one of my favorite season and here’s one poem that I love reading about the season:

Today
BY BILLY COLLINS

If ever there were a spring day so perfect,
so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze

that it made you want to throw
open all the windows in the house

and unlatch the door to the canary’s cage,
indeed, rip the little door from its jamb,

a day when the cool brick paths
and the garden bursting with peonies

seemed so etched in sunlight
that you felt like taking

a hammer to the glass paperweight
on the living room end table,

releasing the inhabitants
from their snow-covered cottage

so they could walk out,
holding hands and squinting

into this larger dome of blue and white,
well, today is just that kind of day.

 

Do you have a favorite spring poem to share with us? Let me know in the comments below.

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Wishing you all happy week ~  Grace