Glimpses of green
newly seen,
make my heart sing,
ah, spring.
Purple, yellow, red,
each bright head,
greeting songbirds
without words.
Copyright 2016 Brenda Davis Harsham
Notes: This is my Poetry Friday ditty of the day. Thanks Buffy Silverman for hosting! Thanks also to Jama, on whose post I won a FREE BOOK! Woo-hoo! Here a tiny taste of my huge feast:
everywhere is chirping
and now there is purple
— Julie Fogliano
from When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons
32 thoughts on “Doorway to Spring”
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Friendly Fairy Tales 
In my opinion, your soul never stops singing….
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I wish that were true. XOXO
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If it would have stopped, now it wouldn’t have the same strenght!
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Lovely all around, Brenda. Wishing you a nice spring week. (and did you see my ‘poem’ about the second ones?)
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Thanks for the pointer. It’s too easy to miss things in the welter of posts and the minutia of life.
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I hear you.
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Lovely, Brenda! Those “glimpses of green..make my heart sing”, too!
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Yay! 🙂
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Like the interplay of title, photo, and poem, Brenda. So much poetic inspiration this time of year!
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Thanks, Tabatha. One of my favorite seasons.
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Just lovely! Make my heart sing too.
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Thanks, Liz!
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I love watching spring creep from the understory into the tops of the trees!
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I love watching color return. 🙂
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The photo of the purple bush is so pretty! Your enjoyment of spring is tangible. Enjoy, enjoy!!
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Thanks, Violet.
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We’ve had some beautiful flowers, and now it’s snowing. I think they’ll pull through, but it’s time for rain instead! I love that “greeting songbirds/without words”, Brenda!
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We’ve got flowers but no bees, yet. It feels unnatural to have flowers without bees.
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My purple flox is just beginning to flower–not quite ready to greet songbirds!
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I took this photo this morning on a neighbor’s walkway. The birds were singing. I do love to write about spring.
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Lovely!
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Thanks!
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Lovely ditty and photos!! Enjoy Julie’s book — you two are kindred spirits. 🙂
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Yes, I think we may well be kindred spirits. I love her book so far. 🙂
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i love your happy spring ditty. the fairies won’t be able to resist it )
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LOL
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Lovely! 😊
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Thank you!
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fairies are hiding I just know it 🙂
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You’re so right!
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Siri and Selma now wants to come and visit.
They send their love and fairy dust xxx ooo ### 🙂
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Siri and Selma are welcome here anytime. Fairy dust received, enhanced and resent to you!
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