Photo: wildflowers at Talgomine Reserve.
“Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” John Muir
Warmth
Winters dark that keeps the soil
surrenders now to shards of early light
that creep around the curtains
and stroke my eyes,
rousing me from sleep and
filling the air with crackle and buzz
a language feared redundant,
the sad rot of autumn feeds the new
and a warmth long absent in my bones
draws forth life in every corner,
while everywhere expectation wafts
and I weave my sense of joy
into this new day.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
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Beautiful description of spring! Some really appealing lines.
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Heather, many thanks for that.
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A pleasure.
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My sentiments exactly!
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Thank you Liz 🙂
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Exquisite, especially how you wove (weaved) the final lines.
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Thank you, much appreciated indeed.
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You’re most welcome.
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Very nice
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Thank you Cheryl.
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Well crafted, Paul!
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Thank you Sandy.
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My pleasure.
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Excellent words. Also love the John Muir quote.
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Your poem feeds me, Paul. Really love it.
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That warms my heart, so glad it feeds, thank you Tracey.
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You’re very welcome, Paul.
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Beautiful poem! I love the photo as well.
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Many thanks Winnie.
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You’re welcome, Paul.
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And you weave your well honed craft into verses filled with new hope…inspiring work Paul!
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Really appreciate your encouraging thoughts.
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This has a lovely cadence, breathing life into the changing seasons. Very nicely done 😊
Caz x
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Thank you so much for sharing that. 🙂
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Sounds like a poem written south of the equator for sure. 🙂
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Ah yes, we in Australia are entering our Spring 🙂
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I knew you were in Oz.
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We call it the promised land 🙂 🙂
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It’s in nature that we fall in love again and again and your poem speaks to this, for me. Such a lovely poem for this beautiful time of year.
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Oh I do love this time of the year, nice to know you also love it, thank you for sharing your reaction to the poem Dawn, much appreciated.
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You’re welcome, Paul. Yes, wonderful time of the year.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Many thanks Charles
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Can we hide autumn and winter here? 😉 Love spring and summer much more. 🙂 Michael
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Yes, I love spring and summer, and our autumn is hot too.
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Its Australia, right? Think i should emigrate. 🙂
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You have such wonderful way to make things come alive with your words. I love it.
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Reblogged this on Alessandria today @ Web Media Network – Pier Carlo Lava.
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Many thanks for that.
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I can so relate to the sentiment in this poem – so well crafted once again
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Thank you for that .
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