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Elizabeth Santos
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0 posted 2001-04-05 10:53 AM


This is the Time

When breezes are calmer and grasses turn green
When visions appear of the tulip unseen
And your heart has a melody ready to sing
This is the time for the coming of spring

When shoots unexpectedly rise through the soil
That cold icy winter left dormant, unspoiled
You know in your heart the impossible’s true
That something this wonderful's coming to you

When branches are ready to burst into pink
Forsythias yellow is just on the brink
And love becomes life’s most desirable thing
Await for the miracle changes will bring

When red breasted robin has perched on a limb
Awaiting the moment to follow a whim
With eye on a small bit of dangling string
This is the time for the coming of spring

Let yellow forsythia burst into bloom
Let fresh springtime fragrance come into the room
Allow your heart open for love to come in
For this is the moment for solace within

The spring changes colors from muted to bright
The reds and the purples and blues of delight
And love changes everything turning to green
To visions of splendor that’s never been seen

Awaken to music the meadow larks sing
For this is the time for the coming of spring

Elizabeth Santos

[This message has been edited by Elizabeth Santos (edited 04-05-2001).]

© Copyright 2001 Elizabeth Santos - All Rights Reserved
wayoutwalt
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1 posted 2001-04-05 10:55 AM


wow i read this with out blinking much...woohoo
Sunshine
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2 posted 2001-04-05 11:02 AM


This reads beautifully and even smells good!  Thank you for this, Lady Santos!
Lone Wolf
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3 posted 2001-04-05 11:02 AM


I love spring!!  You have painted it well, Liz.  

All writing comes
by the grace of God.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sudhir Iyer
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4 posted 2001-04-05 11:09 AM


Fantastic...

Beautiful work, as ever... Liz...

Regards,
sudhir

inot2B
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5 posted 2001-04-05 11:16 AM


What a spring picture you have presented us with this morning. Thank you!

"You know in your heart the impossible’s true
That something this wonderful's coming to you"


How true, how true.

Wilfred Yeats
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6 posted 2001-04-05 05:50 PM


Color - Flow - Meter - but most of all great Beauty - it's why I read you - It's why I enjoy you - and always will
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7 posted 2001-04-05 08:30 PM


Oh,Lizzie~
This is poetic imagery perfected !
What joy !
~*Marge*~

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8 posted 2001-04-05 09:07 PM


indeed it is my friend. . .

thank you. . .  

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Chelsea~
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9 posted 2001-04-05 09:14 PM


elizabeth,

such a lovely tribute
to spring! excellent
imagery

Panne447
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10 posted 2001-04-06 01:08 PM


This is nicely done, Elizabeth.  Hurry Spring. Panne.
P.S. We don't seem to get Spring in TX - it goes from Winter- if we are lucky enough to get one - right to hot, humid, can't stay outside Summer.

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11 posted 2001-04-07 01:36 PM


And love becomes life’s most desirable thing

But that's all the time, not just spring! *G* Seriously... this is beautiful... I like it very much! (Another curtsey to your excellence, Ms. Santos! *S*)

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12 posted 2001-04-07 06:03 PM


Elizabeth:  Wonderful!

Betty Lou Hebert

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13 posted 2001-04-07 06:18 PM


Yes I am waiting, any day now, if the warmer weather would stay around...the springtime
will slip into it's beautiful gown of colours to sigh us into summer...

thank you for such a beautiful read

~Wynter/Maureen

"The worst prison would be a closed heart".
...Pope John Paul II



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