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laryalee Member
since 2000-06-19
Posts 352Alberta, Canada |
She skips capriciously on sodden paths, her glance aware of winter's grizzled smirk. With arms flung wide in welcome hug, she laughs in warm abandon, quickly gets to work. She sponges branches, cleans their crusted eyes, infuses leaves with measured drops of light. She kneels to soothe the huddled saplings' cries and gently bathes their welts from winter's bite. Her fingers swirl in charismatic surge to bandage roots, massage the aching soil. With midwife skills she helps new shoots emerge - their flourished blooms a tribute to her toil. We bow to every season's trumpet call but Spring's the only healer of them all. ********************* I've been away a while...very busy, also working on sonnets which I had never tried before. It's a whole new world! Lary |
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Wikket Member
since 2000-01-29
Posts 340Santa Clara, CA USA |
laryalee: Beautiful...just beautiful. You have me wishing it was May already, so I could be married and off to Kuaui.  This is great! Good Show! ~~Jamie   I mean the opposite of what I say. You've got it now? No, it's the other way. ~Bruce Bennett |
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Trillium 
since 2001-03-09
Posts 12098Idaho, USA |
This is beautifully done and on a subject close to everyone's heart right now. We have been getting snow yesterday and today, here in North Idaho. No spring around here! Betty Lou Hebert |
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ellie LeJeune Member Elite
since 2000-01-10
Posts 4156King of Prussia, PA USA |
What a wonderful analogy to Spring..this is purely glorious! Ellie A friend hears the song in my heart, and sings it to me when my memory fails. |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
Oh I love this, this is beautiful, absolutely beautiful Maree |
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Joyce Johnson
since 2001-03-10
Posts 9912Washington State |
I like your ode to spring. She deserves it. Joyce |
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wordancer Senior Member
since 2000-07-30
Posts 809VA |
What lovely thoughts this is...I can just see mother nature's daughter making her spring rounds. wo |
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Honeybee Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-26
Posts 5372Ontario, CANADA |
"We bow to every season's trumpet call but Spring's the only healer of them all" ================================= YES, indeed! Beautiful, your word use and imagery is amazing!~ Take care, Melissa~ |
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kcsgrandma Senior Member
since 2000-09-24
Posts 1522Presque Isle, ME |
This is a great way to come back, Lary! I've become rather addicted to sonnets myself, and this one is very well done, but more importantly, you have presented a wonderful image of spring, which is of greater interest than the frame you hang it in. To love another person is to see the face of God. |
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Yu Lan Senior Member
since 2000-04-13
Posts 1462New Zealand |
Oh this is SO GOOD! Such a fantasticly warm and cuddly image of Spring.. Your words are so gorgeous here Laryalee, a pleasure to read.. Lynne "He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened." Lao-tsu |
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laryalee Member
since 2000-06-19
Posts 352Alberta, Canada |
Oh dear, this is going to disappear off the page and I haven't thanked you all! So sorry...... Wikket, thank you for your comments, and I wish you all the best when May arrives - have a great honeymoon - with wonderful years ahead! Betty Lou, thanks for stopping by - we don't have spring yet either - but my first tulips are poking through! Ellie, your comments are so uplifting! Maree, bless you, such lovely words! Joyce, I so agree! I wanted to honor her. Wordancer, that's cool - 'Mother Nature's Daughter'....thanks! Melissa, Thank you so much - and congratulations again on your magnificent 2000th post poem! Marilyn, I'm so glad you enjoyed it - and yes, sonnets can be quite addicting! Lynne, oh, I love that 'warm and cuddly'...thank you so much! I'm just so happy you all enjoyed it! Lary |
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