A Spring in my Step…

Like a lamb set free

my heart leaps!

Arms open

W I D E

I embrace

Spring!

*

My back turns against

Winter

It’s l o n g grip broken.

“Good Riddance!”

to grim gales that

cut to the bone.

*

Watery darts

flung from gloomy firmaments

Icy marbles

hurled onto defenceless skeletal shrubs

Heartless hail

ricocheting on frost bitten earth.

*

Spring

summons

a shy

Sun

“Come out and play!

Chase those woeful winter ills away.”

*

Happy to help

sick of being sidelined many months

The Sun

flips a switch

bathes my world in

wonderful warm rays.

*

Soon

I shed scarf, beanie and coat

Birds warble; buds burst forth from

bare branches

Jasmine w a f t s on

benevolent breezes.

*

Plover parents

patiently

guard vulnerable eggs

Foolishly Habitually

laid on a

tiny traffic island.

*

Swamped by an

ocean of school car parking

Vicious vehicles and sticky beak students

‘Sharks’ circle,

Ravenous

for a tasty morsel…

*

Diligent ‘plover patrol’ is

duly rewarded…

Yesterday,

the Proud Parents

shepherded two gangly chicks

To ‘tranquil waters’.

*

Spring’s here!

Heralding holidays!

I breathe a

sigh of relief.

It’s time to

Relax, Rejoice and Rejuvenate.

*

Inspired by nesting Masked Lapwing Plovers and the welcome arrival of Australian Spring holidays.