Today the grass and sky are shining
In perfect sunny hue
The land soaked clean by Winter's snow
And everything made new.
Today everyone is up and out
The breeze is bracing
Fresh and clean
The birds are busy in hedge and tree
While circling buzzards keen.
Remember this day of brand new life
Revealed from neath it's shroud
With it's promise of new beginnings
And mother of newborn proud
For March is round the corner
With temper hard and stern
Winter's ire has one last blast
Afore the seasons turn.
So when the gales and tempests roar
And the sky's fair face is marred
Remember the day you glimpsed this joy
And let is gladden your aching heart.
Written for my Niece, Dulcie "Hope"
Joe Morriss
Feb 2009
There was a time when hope was in vain
It never ceased to freeze and rain
Sleet turned to ice and then back again
The barren womb of Winter lay
Forgotten by flower
Untouched by sun's ray
The bare branch blew
Day after grey day
Then the season shifted
Certain changes came
The shelving of rich hearthside legends
The talk of many a muffled walk
Like the sap which surges through stem and stalk.
Like a sign of life
The sun shone that day
An emblem of the everlasting
Lambs leaping at your coming
The Lark signing its skyward longing.
With face as yet unseen
This spring-child comes
Yet we hear his heartbeat like distant drums
And though the hope of many dies
We face the day with faith filled eyes.
Joe Morriss
March 2008
