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Sally Murphy, Australian author

Poetry Friday: Welcome Spring!

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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 🙂

 

 

Poetry Friday: Spring Is Here

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It’s Poetry Friday and, here in Australia at least, it is Spring! Not being a winter person, I have been looking forward to Spring for weeks – months even.

So, of course, today I want to share a poem about Spring. A few weeks back Heidi from My Juicy Little Universe hosted Poetry Friday, and shared a poem mourning the ending of summer. You can read her poem here.  I loved the form of her poem so much that I wanted to experiment with it for myself. I  set myself an extra challenge of using one rhyme sound for each stanza, just to see if I could. Here is my effort:

Spring is Here!

Birds are tweeting. Spring is here

Lambs are bleating. Spring is here

Cold is fleeting. Spring is here.

Sun is greeting. Spring is here.

Willie wagtail

No more shivering

No more dithering

No more quivering

Spring is here!

 

Leaves are greening. Spring is here.

Birds are preening. Spring is here.

Folks are cleaning. Spring is here.

Garden tools leaning. Spring is here

 

No more complaining

No cold raining

Or chill blaining

Spring is here!

 

Magpies singing. Spring is here.

Kids are swinging. Spring is here

Spring is springing! Spring is here.

Yes spring

spring

spring

is finally here!

(Copyright Sally Murphy 2015)

Thanks so much to Heidi for the inspiration.

Poetry Friday today is hosted by Teacher Dance. Head over there for a round up of all the Poetry Friday goodness.

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