Beauty in the present without rushing towards the future, sometimes something so difficult for me to do...
The air is cold and thin. The grey trees bare, with featherlike branches beginning to bud. The birds sing. The lambs dance and the rivers rage…
The green velvet earth is absolutely sodden and begging for mercy. I hear it, the fine tuning of Earth’s Orchestra, exploding with life behind sealed curtains. I can’t help it, I am so ready to dance...
Sometimes in my impatience for the rising of spring’s day long sun, bearing her hours of dance, I forget to look at the deep wonder of the dark winter sky and her lace of pearls and stars hanging in winter’s infinite black night…
Spring fine tunes her life’s symphony, still backstage of winter’s performance. She whispers, she humms and she tells me...
“Sometimes in the hurry to see the morning’s sun, we have forgetten to look at the gifts in the nightime’s sky”
And so I tap my feet, patiently waiting and admiring winter’s perfectly set stage…spring is the next performance.

So beautifully put and so true! A reminder to not to forget to actually live, in the present.
ReplyDeleteFinally, the meterological spring here is now. It can't be long before we hear and see him.
Winter has her wonder, but I think her visit has been so long and living in this old farmhouse with only a woodstove for heat has worn me down. I try to keep the winter in perspective, but right about now I must confess I anxiously wait for all the “sounds” of spring coming to life :)
DeleteThank you for this beautiful poem to the moment. Yes, I also forget to relish the moment. But it this precise moment that brings joy,
ReplyDeleteBe well.
Mary
I am so anxious for spring, but I must remember the beautiful quiet and solitude of winter…a special kind of peace.
DeleteTres beau!
ReplyDeleteOr Belle!
J'ai mange plus products de Basque hier soirée au Agri Salon...meat incroyable
Il faut faire un petit voyage en printemps ou l’ete…c’est tellement beau et on mange tellement bien :)
ReplyDeleteOh yes. Je suis tout à fait d'accord avec Parisbreakfasts - très beau ! And likewise, I am tapping impatiently for Spring to arrive and offer nature's very own spiritual relief as much as anything else...
ReplyDeleteN’est pas…relief IS the correct word :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful post Bergère. At this time, I can only dream of the velvety landscape of your corner of France...
ReplyDeleteYes, it is now coming to life with a certain urgency…would love to meet when you do come by this way!
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