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mirror man
Senior Member

since 2001-01-08

Posts 814

0 posted 2001-03-18 01:48 AM

Spring

The bird is on the wing
red, black, white and blue
up to the sky, out to sea
and over mountain green.

My love calls me
down the valley, over moor,
to the ocean's pounding shore.
And on the village by the bay
I sight the northern star
to show the way.

I celebrate Spring this day
by sunlight, starlight, Mercury and Mars,
the fox, the heron, and the mare,
the lynx, the snowbird, and the hare,
the fish, the turtle, and the cray,
the spider, snake, and crawly things there.

And in the woods,
Queen Anne's lace,
mulberry black lipped, butterfly traced
caterpillar, spider web,
rabbit run, birdsong,
swallow tail, hedge apple,
mole, vole, and wood chuck hole.

And by night,
Cynthia in her flight
and Orion rising from the sea
and Diana and her Pleiades.
Belladonna Medea will arise
with nightshade, deathcap,
jimson, moth, and bat,
cricket, frog, and lightning bug.
And Aracne will spin her thread,
and feast by moonlight.

I celebrate both light and night,
the seeing and nonsight,
both the dawn and evening song,
all God's children by the day
and Titan's cast out creatures
by the night.

I celebrate
the alpha, omicron, and the zed.

The bird is on the wing.
I celebrate Spring.

copyright 2000

[This message has been edited by mirror man (edited 03-19-2001).]

Janet Marie
Member Laureate

since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

1 posted 2001-03-18 01:57 AM

I celebrate Spring this day
by sunlight, starlight, Mercury and Mars,
the fox, the heron, and the mare,
the lynx, the snowbird, and the hare,
the fish, the turtle, and the cray,
the spider, snake, and crawly things there.

And in the woods,
Queen Anne's lace,
mulberry black lipped, butterfly traced
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wonderful imagery and well expressed anticipation...
yes indeed a celebration of the seasons gifts.
beautiful poetry.well done poet sir

We wish ourselves beautiful,
we cry in the night.
Its not the love you fear ...
its the fall from the height.
~Edwin McCain~

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

2 posted 2001-03-18 02:10 AM

How could spring resist a welcome like this? Very nice. Joyce

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

3 posted 2001-03-18 01:04 PM

MirrorMan~
This is a fabulous reflection of the imagery of Spring.

So many words of beauty upon the page -
Indeed, indeed ~
'The bird is on the wing'
What a lovely celebration of Spring.
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
noles1@totcon.com

Mabel A. Dilley
Senior Member

since 2001-03-17

Posts 859
Seattle, WA, USA

4 posted 2001-03-18 01:13 PM

I kept thinking: "there's the perfect turn of phrase...no, wait here's the one..." Alas, to choose one poetic phrase was to lose the whole of being within your beautiful words. Marvelous!

"I am not now that which I have been."

mirror man
Senior Member

since 2001-01-08

Posts 814

5 posted 2001-03-19 11:38 PM

Thank you all very much. I love Spring. And I'm glad I could make someone else happy expressing it.

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