Another Spring

Winter's bonds are easing now
Rested earth stirs expectantly
to the urgent pulse of life
Even proud withstanding hills
weep softly with the melting snow

The primrose shy nestles by
the crocus proud erect
both towered by the chorus lines
of dancing daffodils
braving the still Wintry sky

An honour guard of cherry trees
stands to along the roads 
in precious passing pink
showing us the now of things
only our deeper feeling sees

Like the return of a long lost love
uncertain hesitant Spring tiptoes in
wary of the lingering ice and frost
Winter has left behind a guard 
that fickle April will remove

We live our lives in time-straight lines
of now tomorrow soon
future hope stills present peace
but to walk the earth a circle makes
the pattern seasons underline. 

Winter's end is Spring's beckoning call
with Summer Autumn still to come
There is a time to live a time to die
a time to laugh a fitting time to cry
for dawn again to come first night must fall

There is gentle solace here
Winters dark but an apparent end
in truth the little death of change
In the ring of life love abides 
and whispers do not fear