Spring Cleaning
I cannot find fine words to say
to explain to you what I did today
I didn’t iron and I didn’t clean
but I breathed with the Earth
as if in a dream.
I had to do shopping
but I did not go
Instead I sat here quietly
and watched the garden grow.
Heard the lulling hum of bumble bees
after silence in Winter’s cold
and marvelled at new daffodils
in shades from white to gold,
saw new growth on the rose trees
which will burst in bloom in June,
heard the breeze thro’ new grass stems
and the blackbird’s springtime tune.
I touched the petals of blossom flowers
that were finer even than silk
and delighted in the narcissus
with blooms pure white, as milk.
The new leaf on the oak tree
had the most lustrous, glorious sheen
and I noticed all around me
a hundred different shades of green.
The sun’s rays seemed warm and comforting
far less searing than Summer’s heat,
and I lay on the grass and breathed slowly
as if in time with Earth’s heartbeat.
I felt a part of the garden.
I felt a part of it all.
From the fences at the roadside
to the edge of the southfacing wall.
There was nothing outside that area
as sweet as what lay within.
I didn’t do any work today
but I revelled in that sin.
For nothing at all can be sweeter
or have any greater worth
than lying on the grass in Springtime
and breathing with the earth.
Ceemb 4.4.07
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