Echoes of Spring

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Oak trees morn of lost souls gone

gathered around the empty lot

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House and family where life was vibrant

now lost to time in the early dawn

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But dark of winter has lost its hold

Earth warms // February’s gold grows brighter

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White lion of spring loosens earth’s grasp

Bursting bulbs challenging winter’s cold…

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As every spring the Narcissus bloom

resurrecting memories of the past

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Golden echoes of a happy home

And flowers gone too soon

Photo: Dwight L. Roth

Today at d’Verse, Merril gave us a Daffodil prompt. From a list of names for daffodil varieties and asked us to use at least three or more  in a poem of our choosing. I decided to write about an empty lot along the road where a house once stood. In the early spring daffodils still come up and bloom at the site.

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52 thoughts on “Echoes of Spring”

  4. I love how plants find their way onto ground where houses once stood. When I was growing up in London, I saw a lot of bomb sites fill up with wild and garden flowers. There is sadness in the lines:
    ‘House and family where life was vibrant
    now lost to time in the early dawn’
    and hope in the lines:
    ‘But dark of winter has lost its hold
    Earth warms // February’s gold grows brighter’.
    Thank goodness for the Narcissi ‘resurrecting memories of the past’.

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  11. Lush and wistful and skilfully done, Dwight.
    I’m especially touched by this theme as a new and special friend recently wished me joy of the “bobbing daffodils” until we meet again. And in our village a whole line of them greet me as I travel out, by car or bus. And yes, they are bobbing in the March winds and breezes.

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