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MID-SPRING

It is mid-May,
Mid the welcome of spring’s changes all
Over the norther hemisphere;
Amid still growing joy with strolls through
Parks and fields, admiring the all
   Of after Winter,

And here, still growing in our own ways, 
We live:
The long blooming mass of babies (born after 1945);
We,the vigorous, overwhelming, well-meaning,
Once new generation, now with
Slower action or being taken on the avenues
  In wheelchairs through
This year’s disturbing Spring
With its news of  impending environmental 
   Crisis, wars, injustice,
   And pandemic hatred and illness.

Here I may be seen by the wayside, abloom at
The end of an ambitious, climbing vine of
Morning Glory.  There!  Off the topmost 
   Dried-throughout branch 
Of a magnificent, ancient, gnarly tree,   
   Which cradles me

I pray from here ——
Hanging confidently at the tip
Of Glory’s vine, 
Against the mid-day’s sun at its highest. So,
Squinting, maybe see me against
The blanched-blue sky, 
   Ever close to the promise of God —

Dangling, reaching
On sweetly…down, trying
To keep a longer hold
Onto my rising fragrance.
The full area of my petals’ centers appears
Still whiter than the higher clouds, despite
My contours maybe trying to edge brown 
And curl.

In the traveling breezes, I do not always
Even seem to feel my pleasant bobbing
   On these warmer airs;
Nor with each dawn do I seem to feel
Quite as bright, or light or spry.Yet 
To and in Nature’s eye, I
Remain here aflight 
   — Even ‘tho, yes, on a vine,
Observing the earth, keen
For the surprise
Of some sprout bursting
With awesome strength 
To push aside then out 
Free from under a stone,
Using its force against the greater mass,
In a motion
To find its unique 
   Space of light for life.




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(c) sally young eslinger 6/3/22
Thanks be to God
In thanksgiving for my family,
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Thanks for all well wishes & your prayers as 
I face my surgery 6/7…Hugs!
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