Springtime is lovely, so they claim
I dare not strip it off its fame
Of earth’s awakener, yet I
Have grown to find Spring rather tame
Each year it urges me to try
To turn back clocks and be the shy
And silly child I used to know
Oh no, the apple of my eye
Aren’t you, sweet Spring, and long ago
My childhood like a timid doe
Ran hiding in the falling dusk
Away from me, its biggest foe
No, I’ll stay here until I must
Go with the changing leaves I trust
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Live for the Love of it,
Sasha A. Palmer (aka Happy)
Enchanting!
ReplyDeleteLove the form.. the interlocking rhymes work so well, yet I'm still a friend of spring
ReplyDeleteFall gardens are fabulous! Why should we go back? (though i am also grateful spring returns)
ReplyDeleteLove the cadence and rhyming verses ~ Beautifully written and I felt nostalgia ~
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, and rhyming pattern is subtle enough to not distract from its elegance.
ReplyDeleteshows you are in tune with the seaon of life - Spring can be rather tiresome and skittish though I prefer your
ReplyDelete"childhood like a timid doe "
Springtime is lovely, so they claim
ReplyDeleteI dare not strip it off its fame
Springtime begets different reactions but mostly many view greenery with awe. Great rhymings Sasha~!
Hank
wonderful use of enjambment. I love springtime, but there is beauty in every season (I'll even begrudgingly admit that of winter...lol)
ReplyDeleteI like autumn best. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining us, Sasha, and I'm sorry it's taken me all this time to read and comment but I've been away.
ReplyDeleteI do like spring, its fresh new buds and flowers, but I have to agree that it is rather tame compared to autumn. I remember coming home from school in the dark after the clocks went back and love those lines:
'My childhood like a timid doe
Ran hiding in the falling dusk
Away from me, its biggest foe'
I'll be there too, 'with the changing leaves I trust'!