"I will give you rain in due season,
and the land shall yield her increase
and the trees of the field yield their fruit."
Leviticus 26:4
In time of silver rain
The earth puts forth
new life again,
Green grasses grow
And flowers lift their heads,
And over all the plain
The wonder spreads
Of Life,
Of Life,
Of Life!
In time of silver rain
The butterflies lift silken wings
To catch a rainbow cry,
And trees put forth
new leaves to sing
In joy beneath the sky
As down the roadway
Passing boys and girls
Go singing, too,
In time of silver rain
When spring
And life
Are new.
Langston Hughes
Two Trees
proclaim in spring
a word to the world
one exploding
into blossom
trumpets glory
one stretching
dead limbs
holds the empty
body of God
both speak
with due reserve
into the listening
ear of the world.
Ralph Wright
Butterfly
Waken sleeping butterfly,
Burst your chrysalis prison
Spread your beauteous wings and fly
Christ, the Lord is risen.
Joyce Kilmer
April showers
sudden deluge brings
sweet perfume
to the rain-kissed air
and a natural
softness
to my clothes
hanging out
on the line.
Pamela Denise Brida
"In the Spring
a young man's fancy
lightly turns
to thoughts of love."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I love this beautiful song,
written by Meredith Wilson
for his 1957 musical play,
"The Music Man".
"Till There Was You"
There were bells on the hill
But I never heard them ringing,
No, I never heard them at all
Till there was you.
There were birds in the sky
But I never saw them winging
No, I never saw them at all
Till there was you.
And there was music,
And there were
wonderful roses,
They tell me,
In sweet fragrant meadows
of dawn, and dew.
There was love all around
But I never heard it singing
No, I never heard it at all
Till there was you!
"My beloved speaks
and says to me,
Rise up,
my love, my fair one,
and come away.
For behold,
the winter is past;
the rain is over and gone.
The flowers appear on the earth;
the time of the singing
of birds has come,
and the voice of the turtledove
is heard in our land."
Song of Solomon
2:10-12
beneath the
rickety old chair
I anticipate
the crimson spray
of red tulips
springing
from their mantle
of green there.
It is such a sight
to see the return
of such delight
in the springtime.
Pamela Denise Brida
April
A time for
sunny yellow daffodils
and fanciful Easter eggs
to make into egg salad.
Soft white mounds
of swirling custard
in a crunchy waffle cone,
the scent of lilacs
ready to bloom
carried in
warm southern breezes
gentle against my face
bring a hint
of summer's ease.
Pamela Denise Brida
Daffodils
The Heralds Of Spring
"April Showers Bring Forth May Flowers"
-An Old English Proverb
A Grove Of Lovely Lilacs
Happy Spring Everyone! |
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