Celebrate Easter

 CELEBRATE EASTER

Beside Lake Chatuge,

the Easter bunny hides

eggs in the verdant grass,

a hollow oak, and daffodils

popping up like lemon drops.

Children wear pastel, ruffled dresses

and race about with their baskets

to find the prized egg.

Fluffy chicks cheep and peep

in a cardboard box.

A parade of tulips

bursting forth from earth's tomb,

the bluebirds perform a spring concert.

Redbud trees don purple robes,

as the dogwoods wash mountaintops

with thousands of petals.

            --Brenda Kay Ledford

I wish my blogger friends a Blessed Easter!

Celebrate Spring

 

Oh, to see the wonder of God's beautiful world through the eyes of an innocent child!

On the first day of March,

my great-niece drew

chalk art on the driveway.

Hearts and flowers

dazzled in purple and red,

she jumped on a hopscotch.

The precious two-year-old

laughed as she plucked

the first jonquils of spring.

They sparkled like sunrays

as she gave me a bouquet.

A flock of robins cut

through the azure skies

and spread an orange quilt

across the greening field.

The thrill of spring

yielded a joyful face,

she did not waste a moment.

                 --Brenda Kay Ledford

It's beginning to look a lot like spring here in the Blue Ridge Mountains.  The little jonquils have popped up, the maples swell with red buds, the forsythia bush is bursting forth like yellow bells, the grass is greening, and the birds are singing their little hearts out with joyful tunes.  I love spring.

Wishing all my blogger friends an awesome springtime!