Humility

Coiled up for winter slumber it had rested the budding pledge Soil still moist the promise is waiting for blossoms and sedge To give host to migrating birds returning from busy regeneration A miracle planted by knowing creation and heartwarming sensation Swallows circle over hedges filled with daffodils and berry shoots Below the wild brush with spring in its steps an abundance of roots Sketch channels of promise faith and nature from deep undercover As if a cave dwelling hermit is reunited once more with his lover The vernal seasons blossoms on polychrome canvas and realign Meaning in the eye of change with perpetual motion designed To pause for thought reflection silent prayer and humble appraisal Meanwhile spiders wed on their cobwebs spun from witch hazel An owl proposes to her mate and sends a call into rustling breeze Which embraces in gentle caress the unperturbed colony of bees ‘Honey’ they shout ‘its time to leave the hive once more for food’ Jelly Royal for breakfast and wild herbs to improve on our mood Meanwhile gelatinous creatures awaken on shore lines and beaches Unaware that we are hankering for freshness and gathering peaches The serpent claims it is about apples and dates for paradise earth Gaia watches over an abundance of kindness and reincarnated birth Soon it will be summer and fields will harvest unless the grim reapers Call to join crosses and tombstones overgrowing with climbing creepers The equinox reminds us that we are impermanent and life is quite finite And that with star dust and good fortune the moment beats hindsight Past future and present are really synonymous expressions of being Blindfolds and double vision mistake the moment for the illusion of seeing Here and now the circle of life spins our short insignificant vital span Inflated by greed and possessions when in truth there is a different plan 02nd May 2020 Written for contest Spring Rhyme Poetry Sponsored by Emile Pinet