More Spring themes today :)
Greening
Green is a song
birds sing in spring
braiding the day
in vines of hope.
Green is a verb
that flexes new hands,
puts wheels to wishes,
a genie of effort.
Green is a heart
when it breathes,
elixir of energy
when it heals.
Green is a plan
that seeks a horizon,
undaunted growth
that never wearies.
Lovely, lovely - the first two lines are PERFECT - song, sing and Spring just work so beautifully together, that repeating sound...and I love the repetition of 'green' too, it's such an evocative but simple word, and it really focuses and refocuses each time on that lovely living colour (I'm using lovely a lot, aren't I?!)
ReplyDeleteI loved 'green is a verb' so completely - am jealous of that. As soon as I read it, I thought grow, live, reach, shoot....etc etc and I neve realised what an active word green is: I love when a poem does that makes you consider or reconsider something and think, oh yes, that's absolutely it....
Lovely :-)
Thank you Cheryl. This was a very spontaneous quick first draft - I now have other verses scrambling for recognition...
DeleteYes, green is such an active word isn't it? It's Spring to me, growth, energy, zing...
I think colours are fantastic prompts. You could write a poem on every one of them and get entirely different results!