It lived on day in the Second Canticle of Spring, its song voiced by birds, messengers on wing, in proclamation of arrival to new and promised life. She departed on day when the first of spring shone green through recession of winter’s covering snow; appearing in the low bases and shortest blades of wintered […]
Browsing Tag: Spring
Short Story
GRAY BEGINNING
In the counter-shadow of dawn’s beginning light, beneath skies gray from spring mourning, water shone as a blanket, even on shallow-slopes where clumped grasses dammed and held it from its run, appearing as snow absent pale glow in season before. Blades of grass shone green up through the standing water, breaking the mirror surface […]
Quick Thought
AN ENERGY
It is trying to rain again, but it is a different front. It is not the steady fall of our winter—gray with only the sound of pour upon the earth. This front is different. The songs of birds, bugs, and frogs precede the storm. There is a flash of light, then crack and […]
Journal Pages
TRUE SPRING
We’re told our world is scary, But—outside—it is not so. The grass is green. There’s blooms on trees. Spring is as it seems: Sometimes cold, sometimes warm; Sometimes clear, sometimes storms; All aligned to God’s Design. Fear not man’s alarums For Truth, Good, and Life Anew —like Spring— Will soon break through. […]