It’s Spring, Hooray Hooray!

I tell you, Melburnians have desperately been awaiting spring after a particularly cold winter this year. A couple of weeks ago we had a lick of sunshine and warmer weather, and that only made us more eager for the real thing. And it’s here at last!

Spring is such a hopeful season; inspirational. Those lovely new rain-washed colours of clear blue skies and fresh green leaves and buds are so uplifting to the spirits. Spring is when you feel something wonderful might be about to happen. (Such as money falling from heaven so that you can buy a whole new wardrobe of joyful hues, and do away with winter dullness!)

Sour cherry tree [image from Wikipedia]Spring is the time for poetry, here’s some: my own, and the eternally beautiful words of Rainer Maria Rilke.

The first balmy breezes
of spring fill my skirts
and lift me up
rush through my hair
like a whirling dervish
caress my eyelids
like a lover

The scent of evening blossoms
carries me off
to a faraway land
where the air is filled
with fluttering petals
and my feet fly over a fragrant carpet
to my hopeful bower

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke