oh, spring!

Golden sunshine

A field of brilliant spring green

Luscious yellow and white daffodils

Forsythia branches of brightly colored blossoms

And yes, even the dandelion

Is balm 

For winter-clouded eyes.

Have you noticed 

In early spring

When trees are still bare of leaves

How dazzlingly bright the sun streams

through their uncovered branches?

Warming the earth,

Waking it from its cold, dark slumber.

Or the abundant hues

Of green and gold

In grass, flower, and hedge?

Yellow

Means hope, laughter, and sunshine.

Green

Is optimism, health, and new beginnings.

In the drab of winter 

I forget how radiant

Is the spring.

And every year

I marvel

At its colors, sounds, and effect

On my awed, enraptured soul.