Photo Credits: Mark
Springtime breezes
Only imagined felt
All my imperfections
Lined up neatly on the shelf
Swinging on the front porch
Of a painted cottage
Small
Home to jack-a-lanterns
In October fall
~~~
Envelop me in daybreak
With promises unbroken
And before the others
Expect of me
And I can dwell
In a world
Inhabited only by me
~~~
Daffodils dance the pathway
And oak trees protect us
Standing stately
Like soldiers on the street
And as oft the ones with tough exterior
are tender flesh beneath
they seem unafraid
To wave their timid leaves
~~~
Love may be fierce
Or take another form
Like rushing water
Or trickling after the winter’s snow storm
Calm breathing
Like an easterly breeze
on a sprightly, slowly wakening
anticipated springtime morn.
~~~lme
The Blackland Ballad 