am i Spring today?

Birds sing out, only, thrilling creation.

Every branch, reaching upward. Do I?

Tree roots deep, weaving, hidden sharing.

Each leaf open, vulnerable, receiving light.

blades of Grass, too many for me to count…

inside one square inch!

Reality beneath above measure…. and me?

shades of Green, infinite, beyond. Abundance…

“That rock’s holding itself, in cellular embrace!”

Unaffected? Steadfast

Time Outside, Patient

… streams flow, in movement endless, widening …

aligned, gravitation pulling

from skies in nourishment

toward rivers, lakes, oceans

in nourishment, into skies

Acquiescent Radiance, Naturally within Content.

Sacred both -- Life and Death and Life -- One Reality

Spring happens, every year after winter

morning, after night

following sleep, I dawn

time spirals, forever now

Faces turn springing up, new, upward and outward with

me, you, humankind, nature, the divine Source of being…

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Here's my poem again, this time illustrated...

Birds sing out, only, thrilling creation.

Every branch, reaching upward. Do I?

Each leaf open, vulnerable, receiving light.

blades of Grass, too many for me to count…

inside one square inch!

shades of Green, infinite, beyond.

Abundance...

“That rock’s holding itself, in cellular embrace!”

Unaffected? Steadfast

Time Outside, Patient

(I know ... but still, broken, this stone struggles to remain intact!)

… streams flow, in movement endless, widening …

aligned, gravitation pulling

from skies in nourishment

toward rivers, lakes, oceans

in nourishment, into skies

Sacred both -- Life and Death and Life -- One Reality

Spring happens, every year after winter

morning, after night

following sleep, I dawn

time spirals, forever now

Faces turn springing up, new, upward and outward with

me, you, humankind, nature, the divine Source of being…

Participate with Life in the abundant Beauty of each Spring day

from the sacred moment of Dawn....