Happy Equinox! Up here in the northern hemisphere we have officially arrived at spring even if outside isn’t in full agreement. Sorry folks in the southern hemisphere, it’s autumn for you now with winter right around the corner.
Spring is a fickle season, at least where I live. One day could be heavy snow and a few days later there could be blazing sunshine and warm enough for shorts and t-shirts. One just never knows, which makes clothing choices difficult and what coat or jacket to wear a near impossible decision.
But I natter on. Today, in honor of spring, I thought a poem was called for.
This poem comes from a lovely children’s book of seasonal poems that Danielle gifted me with. The book is called When Green Becomes Tomatoes by Julie Fogliano. It is broken into the four seasons and the poem titles are dates. The whole book is also illustrated with delightful colored drawings appropriate to the season.
march 20
from snow-covered tree
one bird singing
each tweet poking
a tiny hole
through the edge of winter
and landing carefully
balancing gently
on the tip of spring
Isn’t that wonderful? I love the bird tweets poking tiny holes in winter!
Happy spring! I hope you got some sunshine today and some fresh cool air.
Yes, wonderful! Thanks for giving us a good thought for bedtime musing.
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booksandbuttons, glad you enjoyed it!
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Happy spring! I hope it treats y’all well this year! We’ve been having a very up and down sort of spring — last week it was chillyish (for us), and this week it seems to be getting properly hot again (ugh).
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Happy spring Jenny! My parents live in southern California and they get spring like you do some days of chilly and then 85+ degrees. A warm spring day here is 50 and 70 is positively hot 🙂
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Thanks very much Stefanie for the sympathy and recognition of the pain we are about to descend into!
Love that poem: “balancing gently/on the tip of spring” is lovely.
Oh, and spring is fickle here too. Autumn is normally settled, but not so much this year.
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whisperinggums, I owe my awareness to you! As I was typing I thought, I had better add some sympathy for the south or Whisperinggums is going to give me a hard time 😉
Glad you enjoyed the poem. It seems spring is fickle everywhere. An unsettled autumn means summer doesn’t want to let go. 🙂
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Haha, Stefanie, I’m seeping into your consciousness! I like your definition of an unsettled autumn.
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seeping into my consciousness, that’s kind of scary! 😀
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Happy Spring!
It has been cold here on Long Island so it still does not feel like it.
I for one am looking forward to warmer weather which should be here soon.
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I am one of those people who rather miss winter when its gone.
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Ian, I suspect people who miss winter haven’t even experienced a proper danger of frostbite, howling wind and snow and ice winter 😉
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Brian Joseph, the warmer weather always happens to fast and then everyone wonders what happens to spring. Hang in there!
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I love the poem! Will check out the book–sounds like just the thing to introduce children to poetry and lovely language. Of course, the poem you’ve included delights regardless of age!
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Jenclair, glad you liked it! It is a wonderful book and definitely would make a good introduction to poetry for children!
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An appropriate poem. Matches the atmosphere… though spring in Florida is always with a whiff of humidity and scorching heat. It’s also nice, though.
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happy Spring!
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wanderwolf, I’m not sure one can say Florida actually has spring since it doesn’t really have a proper winter. 🙂
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Very true. But we do have a shift from dry and coolish to windy and steadily warmer and more humid. And there are some plants that only come back in the Spring! And we do have some deciduous trees that get their leaves back 🙂 so not totally out of it!
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Heh, yes, I suppose you can call that spring, though spring in Florida looks a lot different than spring in Minnesota 😀
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Well, yeah. No way I’d compare the two!
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We did get sunshine today – and snow! Thankfully it didn’t stay long. Lovely wee poem.
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pining, a little of everything! Glad the snow didn’t stay long.
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