Best Vernal Poems
"In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth." - John Milton
Valleys, fields, meadows and hills take on a sunny glow.
Everything is fresh, and nature’s new creatures flourish and grow.
Rains pour down; mountain streams joined to rivers flow.
Never at least till fall must I worry about streets filled with snow.
Abloom are various flowers and trees; they put on beautiful show.
Life renews and songs fill the air as spring’s birds fly to and fro.
Just east of here, in shallow prairie pools
In secret, lives a fleeting little world
Late rains caught in impenetrable clay
Host a brilliant and vanishing bloom
Tiny flowers erupt, golden bursts of color
Fairy shrimp spring from dormant cells
Ephemeral life short lived but vibrant
For those that seek, a precious find
Frequented by birds and little mammals
These small habitats are quickly fading
Another picture of precious life interrupted
Perhaps soon found only in memories.
Asterisms flicker
one sleek obsidian night;
solstice slips away
Snowdrop shoots nosing
petals into bitter winds;
first whispers of spring
Sparkling laughter runs
among the pebbles and reeds;
melt-water music
Bright blue, wet green days
wash away winters lather;
vernal equinox.
Spring begins as a spring, the roads shining wet, the earth desultory floats the water as
the lawns are pricking green welcoming the Spring. At dawn the birds chatter with delight
at the worms' awful plight while commuters mutter imprecations to one and all as if
weather lore will do for us all, until they remember the Easter holiday that still seems so
far off as the weather seems to be spoiling our lot.
Snow shovels the warm dry sunny weather we had for over a week far away as it reminds
us of its power to be bloody awkward of its own accord.
In Spring we all fancy a smile that is not wry and weather to warm our bodies and souls
after a grotty winter. Let us Hope!
the spring equinox
brings warmer and longer days ~
bleak landscape reborn
Written 25th February 2021
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vernal equinox (Haiku)
vernal equinox
starts on the first day of Spring
on twentieth March.
Dr Ko Ko Thein
Salt Lake City
I fell in love among the daffodils,
Those golden maids who dance in early spring,
My heart bid farewell to its winter chill,
As I saw beauty in everything,
The morning sun reflects upon my quill,
Release the words my heart now longs to sing,
Among the daffodils comes something new
And all my words can say is – ‘I love you!’
Form: Ottava Rima
The vernal showers- so sublime, divine,
Pattering on enticing eglantine,
Resounding refrain, the thunders sing,
The spectral arcs smearing spirit of spring,
Drenched in that shower from welkin’s soul,
Marigolds and tulips dance enthralled.
I hear them drizzle on the grassy green,
Their song like a lullaby my senses reign,
My silent rendezvous with these drops blissful,
Exuding ecstasy within wistful,
That I be intrepid to wonder in awe-
“What be these drops that stir my soul?”
They be showers of blessings from a celestial mind,
To cleanse the peccadilloes of human kind.
Or they be drops from plaintive eyes, lamenting-
“What man has made of man.”
The Vernal Equinox
By Franklin Price
3/24/2016
The Vernal Equinox has passed
Went by four days ago
The sun has traveled halfway south
Towards Summer don't you know
The temperature is climbing
The flowers are in bloom
The leaves returning to the trees
To give the shade more room
Pink, red and white the leaves of trees
Temporarily are in view
Then turn to green to change the scene
And refresh the world anew
Wildlife is appearing
Birds coming home to nest
Have to get the feeders out
To view them at their best
We know that Spring's established
When the hummingbirds appear
Those living ornithopters
Return again from year to year
So much happens in the Spring
Telling all would take a book
To enjoy the wonders of it
Go outside and take a look
Vernal breeze
by Elaine Roy
May my heart be the vernal breeze that passes over your heart, to fill you with my love.
It's in the vernal breeze, were nothing can be seen but everything is felt with in our hearts.
Shall we place our feelings on the vernal breeze and let it take us were our love need to go.
Casting our passion on the breeze of wonder and surprize!
It's were loving hands feel to touch each others hearts, without needing to gain!
May we find our vernal breeze, that make us close our eyes to see, what only we can feel!
today brings much change
the birds hail Spring's arrival
Winter relinquish'd
you can sense it
smell it, see it
clear, clean, cloudless days
earth's quickening
the energy, bursting energy
in pale shades
soft new shades
emerge from the ground
with boundless conviction
spring whispers to them
run, run to the sun
end winter's rule
tender tendrils grow
holding hands, dancing
in the woodlands
marsh and thicket
The chorus of spring begins as peeper's chime in time with the crickets on strings Whippoorwill winds with owls being deeper Musical sounds in the night in full swing Harmonic interludes then the silent song When a bugling bass elk hits a soprano so high joining in are a myriad of birds welcoming the dawn while their cheerful chirps of a jazzy song feels the sky
forsythia shines
where vernal rains launder earth
sudden lightning strikes
Copyright, Faye Lanham Gibson
March 2, 2022
Seasons renew, Springtime approach
Careful now, winter may encroach
I welcome, without reproach
Peel back blankets, reveal fresh sheets
Buds in humid air, growing sweet
Cycle of life, now competes
Mother nature, seeds breakthrough earth
Gestation over, brings forth birth
Primal scream, explosive mirth
All too soon, grasslands dehydrate
Overhead sun, heat concentrate
Goodbye spring, evaporates
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