Spring has Sprung

Happiness kisses my cheek

And giggles in my ear

Giving me a staccato lilt

Songs of echoing sea tides

Beaches of sand and rock

Call to me with sunshine

Whispering of pictures

I have yet to take

Creatures I have yet to meet

Wait for their portraits

Donning sunlight’s contrast

For my lens to capture

Blue hues of mountains

Reflect the Heron wild

Golden Eagle too quick to

Capture flies east to deepest seas

I damn my slowness

In capturing that in focus

Two Bald Eagles fighting

For territory and dominance

They dance above me

In ferocious flight

So close I can almost

Reach out and touch their flight feathers

Spring has sprung

With it the animals are ready

For love and lofty prose

Excited by warm winds; planets position

Come with me and walk

The slope swept sands

We will gather under the nests

Of raptures wild

Breathing the scent of

Un-slumbering insects

Newly released from harbors cocoon

The Bumbles a heaven sent sight

Rhododendron blossoms

Burst forth into sunshine

Hues of brilliant pink

Plum blossoms wink and sway

Grass and mosses

In brilliant green shades

Bring smiles upon this face

And heighten the spring in my step…