Ode to Spring

It may not be a mystery - or is it? Ode to Spring formed itself from my pen as if the rain flowed onto the page and here is the result.

LISTEN TO THE SILENCE

Listen to the silence

Punctuated only by

The Spring of birds

Songs of renewal and thanks giving

Songs of lessons learned and new beginning

A single drop of rain

Drips and soggies food

No matter, cheerful chatter

Gives thanks

profusely for abundance

Gray clouds shroud the day

Bird songs spread the light

And raise the gray

Inside if not on the out

Juncos – pilgrim birds

Dresden plate pattern tails

Sparrows not one drops

Without God's notice

Buds of spring

Miracles of song

 And Robins

Tree branch's twigs

Weep drops of captured rain

Puddled bird bath dips

In path and road

Invite

Connect

Bird Songs

Listen to the silence

Between Winter and Spring

Before gold finch and wrens return

Before buds burst into full bloom

And maple sap nourishes

Thirsty birds

and you.

Words Survive

Picture by Sherri Palm at her home in Northern Wisconsin.


Ozymandias (1818) by Percy Byssie Shelly

This sonnet by Shelly just proves that words survive human rulers. Poetry/romantic perfectly turned phrases, will always remain. Even when rulers destroyed each others written words some survived. Preserved by someone who loved the words.

In this Petrarchan sonnet it is divided normally into 2 parts; question, formed by the first half, the octet, answers, normally follow in the second half, the sestet. In Ozymandias however, the octet paints an image, the sestet comments ironically.

The image of legs and a grinning face of a broken statue surrounded by a vast wasteland of desert sand speaks volumes to the reader. The writer paints the picture of the toppled statue that did not survive the ravages of time or change, but the words the author paints the scene with do. We don't have the desert but sometimes the snow can make the same statement. As with this picture by amateur photographer Sherrie Palm, a picture is truly worth a thousand words. Poets and writers create these pictures in words. The best of both worlds.
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