317 Spring Is Coming

“Spring Is Coming”

Across hills and fields butterbur flowers burst with buds,
Announcing the arrival of spring.
The senses delight with the season’s sweet bitter tastes,
The heart, buoyant and in high spirits.

For a short while until the start of summer
The eyes are treated to vivid colors indeed:
Plum, canola, cherry, wisteria, and azalea blooms
Bring new, colorful delights to every day.

Winter is a time to be endured, a time to save and store up;
Spring is a time to be free, a time for new life.

In our lives, too, there are seasons.
While winter is hard and severe,
With the right outlook, it can be a time of many joys as well.
No matter how long or hard the winter,
In any life spring shall come.

Spring: A new door opens.
Spring: Vistas yet unseen spread out before us.
Spring: A new world awaits.

To those who believe a hard winter beckons spring,
And those who, bit by bit and day by day, save and store,
Spring is coming, spring is coming.