I am inspired by the Spring when gardens explode to life with color! Here is one of my April poems recently published in The Avocet, A Journal of Nature Poetry, Spring 2016 Issue. I’ve also included corresponding photos from my own backyard. Can you identify the plant names with clues from the poem? Happy Spring!
A Spring Symphony
This is a song to the birch leaves
that sprout hello as they grow
from twigged arms to conduct
my reawakening April garden.
Magenta bursts of bougainvillea,
pink begonia and purple Mexican
Sage grace us with their surgency.
Tomato plants and strawberries
show off their happy faces. Mint
marches over the bitter oregano.
The fog rolls in with wet kisses
causing the brick to blush deep
red. A full moon rises and bell
shaped flowers toll out their
alluring perfume until dawn.
Symphonic! I especially like “mint marches over the bitter oregano.”
Lisa, It’s so true. Mint takes over my whole garden. Yours too?
“Surgency!” I think you invented a word and it’s a good one! I love Mexican sage – it grows so easily and attracts hummingbirds. Happy Spring.
Sylvia, When surgency popped onto the page I didn’t think it was a real word either, so I looked it up and it fit well in the poem. It’s always fun to learn news word! Here’s what I found:From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Surgency is a trait aspect of emotional reactivity in which a person tends towards high levels of positive affect.[1] It has been linked to the Big Five personality traits of extraversion in children.[2] In children, surgency is an emotional dimension that is characterized by high levels of activity and positive emotion, impulsivity, and engagement with their environment.[1]
Lovely Jill…very evocative….xo
Linda, Thanks for reading the poem! I love the word evocative too.
Your poem had me breathing in deeply even though all I could smell was my morning coffee. Thanks, Jill, for bringing spring to us. Beautiful.
Judy, I hope your jasmine are blooming now too!