"Springtime- how does it know..."

Springtime- how does it know

March winds rise and gust today

Sending winter's hold faraway

Daffodils in yellow bloom waving a greeting 

to a friend from long ago

How does it know to befriend again?

Trees budding, new life, new growth

Gentle showers cease as the sunshine breaks through the day

Hyacinths second to the crocus peek out from the ground

Before the tulips bloom as they wait

Among a purple flowered myrtle field

The maple sap is filling from bottom up to the tree limbs, 

to the pink buds starting to appear

Forsythia starting now to green before the yellow brightens the countryside

The Aspen, Dogwood, and Redbud patiently wait their time

Grass greening up, nature's way

How do the brown blades know to green again?

New birds arrive and their distinctive songs fill the air

Coming back from the winter leave 

The blue sky, with the beautiful flowers and buds and sweet sound of the songbirds, 

Bring cherished life to our souls again 

How do they know to do this again?

Remember Spring, 

A hope and rest it echoes

Beauty of the sounds of life,

Care of the flowers of the field , the timing and nature’s rhythm and cycles 

Rest in the seasons , in the fleeting

Rest, off the worn hard paths,

in the meadows 

in the “fields of green grass” 1

Springtime- how does it know, Glimpse poetry by Joe Holuta

1. Psalm 23:2 https://glimpsepoetry.blogspot.com/2022/04/psalm-23-he-cares-for-me-always.html

 

About this Poem: Springtime- how does it know, is about the first flowers of Spring greeting the season. Myrtle and tree buds start to bloom. Brown blades of grass know to turn green. Ending in the ABC's of rest of Psalm 23, meadows green. - Joe Holuta