The days are getting longer and a teensy bit warmer. My daffodils are flowering and there’s a spring in my step.
That’s right – spring is here! And yesterday, the first official day of spring in Australia, I found a poem bubbling up from the midst of my joy.
Come in!
Welcome Spring!
Come on in!
Let warmer sunny days begin.
Let daffies trumpet to the sky
That Spring is here
And Summer nigh.
Welcome Spring!
So glad you’re here
Let balmy blue-skied days appear.
Let flowers, bees and birds proclaim
How glad we feel
Because you came.
Welcome Spring,
My dear old friend!
You herald dreary Winter’s end
Such delight and joy you bring
As we welcome
Welcome
Welcome
SPRING!
(Sally Murphy, 2022)
And it’s not only Spring, but it’s also Poetry Friday. Imagine my giggle when I saw that today’s host, Linda at TeacherDance, has titled her own post Welcome September. Of course September is a little different in her part of the world, so it’s wonderful to think we are each able to celebrate such different beginnings.
Happy Spring! Happy September! And (shhhhhhhh) happy birthday to me 🙂
Happy birthday and happy Spring and happy big wonderful world where we can celebrate the changing seasons through poetry and friendship!
As we leave summer and you welcome spring, I delight knowing the butterflies and daffodils will have found an ongoing audience! Happy Birthday, Sally!
How wonderful to think of you welcoming the yellow of new daffodils while we welcome the yellowing of leaves! Your poem is a delightful celebration. Love “daffies” !! Wishing you a wonderful birthday!
Oh those lovely bubbling over daffies in your poem and pic too, both wonderful! And such a jubilant poem to open spring with, I think I hear the trumpets all the way over here… Wishing you the happiest of Birthday wishes, thanks Sally!
Happy Birthday! What a wonderful, springy, birthday poem! I love that Poetry Friday fell on your birthday–extra presents for you. The repetition of “welcome” makes me happy.
Sally, Happy Birthday and enjoy spring. Your poem is inviting but fall is coming soon and I love everything about it.
You are lucky like me to have daffodils on your birthday–except mine is in March! Your poem is so jubilant–and it sounds like a hymn. Happy Birthday to You!
Thank you Heidi. Glad you get the daffodils too. They are such a happy flower.
Daffies! 🙂 And a happy birthday to you Sally! Enjoy all the spring-y festivities. xo
Thank you Irene. I will indeed!
Oh, Sally, Happy Happy Birthday! Wishing you many celebrations as you skip by those daffies! It is such a nice surprise to read your lovely spring welcome while I am yearning for autumn. I love the joy in your poem, your “dear old friend”. Happy Spring, too!
Thank you Linda. I feel very lucky to have daffodils blooming on my birthday – and for it to be poetry Friday too is a special thing!