Category: Spring

• Birds Sky Spring winter

  A Warming Winter
  Day Hints at Spring as Crow Rises
  To Hawk Crying War
  

  February 11, 2012
• Flowers Memories Snow Spring winter

  
  Winter Remembered
  White Crab Apple Blossoms Drift
  Across the Sidewalk
  

  May 24, 2011
• Animals Flowers Spring With Juliette Crane

  
  Each spring, year on year,
  We’re surprised and delighted
  By every new bloom
  

  April 15, 2011
• Spring Water Wind

  
  What Is It About
  Wind Riffling Open Water
  That Suggests Essence
  

  April 13, 2011
• Spring Water

  
  Knowing Better, But
  Still Wanting Open Water
  In Early April
  

  April 2, 2011
• Animals Garden Spring Sun

  
  In Full Lizard Mode,
  Soaking up the Sun on a
  Bench in the Garden
  

  March 30, 2011
• Sky Snow Spring Trees

  
  Brown Grass Peeks Through Snow
  Bare Tree Limbs Etch Deep Blue Sky
  Early Spring’s First Signs
  

  March 28, 2011
• Flowers Garden Spring

  
  Work day urgencies,
  Cannot breach the garden walls
  Poppies pop slowly
  

  May 27, 2010
• Birds Morning Spring

  
  Alfalfa first cut
  Perfumes the late spring morning
  Redwing blackbird trills
  

  May 20, 2010
• Clouds Morning Spring Storms

  
  All Spring’s colors mute
  Beneath a grey morning sky
  of the coming storm
  

  April 30, 2010
• Birds Rural Spring Sunrise

  
  An April sunrise
  A hawk watches mists rising
  From newly plowed fields.
  

  April 14, 2010
• Birds Music Spring

  
  April breeze chimes through
  Flagpole riggings like hand bells
  And songbirds answer
  

  April 3, 2010
• Birds Sky Spring Water winter

  
  Yesterday stones poked
  Through the ice. Today duck butts
  pointing at the sky
  

  April 1, 2010
• Snow Spring

  
  Sidewalks, city streets
  Etched in dark relief. Spring snow
  paints lawns and rooftops.
  

  March 20, 2010
• Morning Spring Trees

  
  Tree limb’s shadows stretch
  Across the park, waking up
  With the city at dawn
  

  March 8, 2010
• Snow Spring Trees

  
  No Snow! Well almost.
  Wet, rotting brown leaves emerge
  A promise of near spring
  

  March 6, 2010
• Flowers Spring winter

  
  A dream of springtime.
  Scent of flowers lingers like
  Incense. Winter ends.
  

  February 6, 2010
• Birds Morning Music Spring

  
  I dreamt of springtime.
  As I wake, the room echoes
  With song bird’s music.
  

  February 2, 2010
• Cats Spring winter

  
  Cats don’t quite believe
  In Winter, always hoping
  Some door leads to Spring.
  

  December 21, 2009
• Animals Rain Snow Spring

  
  Spring rain smells of worms
  Summer rain of dust rising
  Snow echoes silence
  

  May 29, 2009
• Spring Trees

  
  A tree’s spring promise
  Brown twigs edged in lightest green
  Buds with umber haze
  

  May 17, 2009
• Cats Spring

  
  Indoor cats want out
  April, the frustrating month
  Laced with complaint
  

  May 17, 2009
• Spring Trees

  
  Winter’s bare branches
  Turn Into a rustling green
  Symphony for Spring
  

  May 17, 2009
• Animals Spring

  
  Suddenly insects.
  Red lady bug on white shirt,
  Dragonfly hovering
  

  April 21, 2009
• Spring

  
  Running on tip toe,
  barefoot, for morning papers.
  April is too cold
  

  April 12, 2009
• Snow Spring

  
  The rotting snow banks
  Reveal dirty, crumbling trash
  The first signs of spring

  March 29, 2009
• Rain Roads Spring winter

  
  Still lounging in bed
  Listening to spring rain wash
  Winter from the streets
  

  March 8, 2009
• Animals Snow Spring

  
  Snow dusted sidewalk
  Full of braided rabbit tracks
  Early signs of spring
  

  February 25, 2009
• Snow Spring

  
  Beggar squirrels sift
  Dead leaves, dirty crusts of snow
  Not quite springtime yet
  

  February 13, 2009