Best Spring Up Poems

In 1971 my wife, a nursing aid at the time,
                        working in small city hospital, experienced
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Water     /     Water
              New Hamburg, Ontario         Rubkuai village, South Sudan


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Little dove, there you are, perched in the snow,
we need not to ask,
for, how well, we know

How your presence speaks gently
of faith in the spring
when you come out of hiding
and we hear your voice sing…

Rise up, don't be timid
for winter will pass
The flowers will spring...

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Warm sunshine touches my face, and I begin to blow bubbles
   I wonder and wait to see how big or small you'll be,
Iridescent and beautifully floating carefree through the air.
     I wish it was me instead of you.
Giggles escape...

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Depression 

Sit on the porch an hold his hand, 
tell him he has to be the man,
 don't let bitterness spoil the plan,
 your loving kindness will help you maam ... 

the ole dog sits in the background,
an your spirit it is down,
the nasty world...

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There sneaked a micro organism into the lives of human kind from elsewhere,
Who made it intruded is still a mystery, yet it’s fate of the world
That life on earth is engulfed with thorns and bruises?
They say: It’s from bats, some say: it’s a shoot of...

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Rife with abstractions, and still just listening;
Leaning on pages, the night keeps glistening.
Ripping at seams, no intentions of fixing
As leaks spring up in the darkness of evening.
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Unrighteous, ungodly desires(spring up)
Those desires bubble up
From the flesh notions of sin stand
From Jesus flows grace's cup

Sin wrought so much concupicence
See the Law is Holy
Man in his separated state
Very carnal, lowly

There is a present principle
What one would do, they don't
What one shouldn't do, they do...

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At first it starts with a tiny seed
 then the roots spring up out of the fertile soil
 preaching, teaching & service
 To humbly obey is better then sacrifice

 faces, spaces & traces
 It unfold with an open heart
 saturated with the truth of God's...

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I was sleeping and right in the middle of a good dream
Like all at once I wake up from something that keeps knocking at my brain
Before I go insane I hold my pillow to my head
And spring up in my bed screaming out the words...

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HAIBUN
You are electron microscopic size, but you possess infinitesimal power. Just a single strand of encapsulated RNA, yet you and your brothers SARS and MERS can sicken and kill more complex life.

Covid-19, virion unseen
Bring humans to their knees
Cowering and trembling

You spring up suddenly from nowhere...

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Winter Bows to Spring

In the midst of sullen cold
 pink cherry blossoms burst open as winter bows to spring ~
 yellow daffodils spring up from frozen icicles ~
 white snowdrops vault through soils of howling storms ~
 gold jasmina scampers up fences between winter's wildness...

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Charred wood and ash 
stink, after fires
in Garigal high-country.

A single crow cries
road-side, on a black tree-post
guarding road kill –
a round brown wallaby
with feet stuck-up.

Ash covers ash:
grey dust lies still...

until rain drizzles sweet liquid,
wets dirt, licks seeds, nudges life.
Seeds swell, unfold, 
lift leaves to prick the...

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So I have some things, that I just have to say,
but please do not take me in the wrong way,
I have this tiny little problem, inside me you see,
and its called trying to live with ADHD.

These thing's that you say, they way you behave,
drive me...

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cold February's
rain saturates the good earth...
star magnolia blooms  

A symbol of spring's resurrection are those early blossoms. The Daffodils spring up under the bright yellow Forsythia and beautiful pink tulip shaped flowers cover the Japanese Magnolia. Resurrection stated in the most subtle way. They...

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