Springing

 

Springing

By Teak Kilmer

April 29, 2010

 

 

 

Spring-a-ling-a-ling

summer’s door bell rings

Lawn leaves beckon

while wind storms be reckin’

Falling limbs ‘bout every second

 

Rake me, weed me, pick up sticks

Kids to each other mud affix

Young father making tool-ish noise

Building tree house for little boys

and/or sawing and attaching joists

 

Or studs or roof or siding stuff

and kidlets playing Blind Man’s Bluff

Birdies singing chirp and tweet

Grinning tulips for squirrels to eat

in winter fat still replete

 

Leaves in citrine and hues of green

some maroon, purple seen

from infancy to adolescence rush

maturity soon in full flush

as all of nature does up-rush

 

Glowing crystal prism waves

Wood ducks by nature praised

as the mallards and the geese

demonstrate to us the peace

that all of life … is one apiece

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