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Beauty In the Carolinas
in the Carolinas there's beauty in nature
spring is here ears are attuned to birds singing
baby chicks tweets for their parents feedingsl
behind green foliage on an oak trees's branch
eyes spies butterflies freed from it's cacoon
drinking nectar from wildflowers
in the fields behind a farmers barn
where a river of pink salmon swim up stream
mouth watering blackberries catches strollers
attention
alongside grassy trail thorns and spiny leaves pricks
the hands
of walkers hoping to taste the sweetness of a
blackberry
a pocket dyed purple with a few to take home
mmmmm the smell of roses tickles nostril hairs
growing wild along the woods edge
three feet from the picket fence around the yard
tall smiling sunflowers wave at visitors touring the
grounds
children touch dandilions by Cooper's pond
laugh and play reaching for dandifluries in the wind
arms like airplane wings waving up and down while
they run
hearing their names being called time for supper
spring is here again feel the warmth after the chilly
winter
the sunshine blazing through sliding glass doors
vacationing warm spring beaches along the grand
strand
sand between the toes water above knees in the
dusky hours
in the Carolina's spring is here again
all is new in the beauty of nature
Copyright ©
Barbara Washington
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