Just "Be" in Spring's Presence

Nature is always inviting you to see her beauty and power.

She is attracting you with her dance, song, and love.

- Author, Debasish Mridha

With the art of storytellers, Springsation poets paint a tranquil museum-like walk through the early part of the Spring season. If you travel to the Springsations Gallery of Artistic Expressions Vol. 2. Padlet you will see a showcase of springtime artistry. As you move mindfully through the gallery breathe, rejoice, and "be" centered in the serenity of spring. Pause, gaze, and let nature mystify you with her endless color palettes, dazzling landscape, and poetic goodness.

         Spring photos were captured by  Diane Anderson, Ramona Behnke, Leigh Anne Eck, 

           Bob Hamera, Jone Rush MacCulloch, Linda Mitchell, Lou Piccolo, Carol Varsalona

                           

After you take a gallery walk through Springsations Gallery of Artistic Expressions Vol. 2. Padlet, read the Cento, collage poem, below. It was created by lifting lines from each of the image poems written by an amazing group of poets who grace the Gallery. 

~Just BE In Spring's Presence~

Open your senses to Earth's beauty.

Follow a flower's fluttered edges.

Her morning song,

Spring's first act,

mounts translucent music

and envelops me in marvelment

as hummingbirds fly on high.

Spring Scoop:

Mother Sun hovers.

Dandelion fluff launches skyward.

A bee crawls inside while

daffodils lift their thirsty heads.

Spring's new beginnings 

flutter in hearts,

vaporizing, 

peering up into the heavens.

Behold the cycle of life.

 From wayward, wind-caught seedlings,

sunshine buds whisper.

Bare branches banish winter

and announce spring forsythias.

Muddy browns retreat.

Fresh white is in sight.

Trails wind through.

Planes embroider

white criss-cross stitches.

Be present in these movements.

Springsations echo,

awakening splendor.

Reflect on Nature's blessings,

her magic in small moments.

Spread hope, kindness, and love

that our world needs!

Open May's door,

cracked just enough,

to give those caught in Spring

a glimpse of Summer green.

©CVarsalona, designer/poet, with Springsations Poets, 2023

Diane Anderson

Linda Baie

Ramona Behnke

Rose Cappelli

Leigh Anne Eck

Matt F. Esenwine

Margaret G. Simon

Bob Hamera

Devin Hartnett

Jane Heitman Healy

Carol Labuzzetta

Irene Latham

Michelle Kogan

Melanie Korach

Denise Krebs

Jone Rush MacCulloch

Bridget Magee

Faige Meller

Linda Mitchell

Janet Nestor

Elizabeth Neubauer

Lou Piccola

Laura Purdie Salas

Janice Scully

Kiesha Shepard

Donna Smith

Sandie Vaisnoras

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Nature will continue to showcase her beauty this month of May in song, dance, poetry, and photos. If inclined you can add more image poems or other artistic expressions to the Springsations Gallery Padlet. I hope you enjoyed the unveiling of the Springsations Gallery. I applaud all the poets who joined me to praise the beauty of Spring.

Please take a peek at Springsations Gallery Vol. 1. You may see one of your artistic expressions in that gallery from 2017. Thank you for perusing both galleries.

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For more poetic goodness, please visit this week's Poetry Friday's host, Janice Scully, at her blog, Salt City Verse. She is reviewing books by two of my favorite children's book writers, Laura Purdie Salas and Charles Ghigna. She also has a poem about the weather that has been changing quite a bit this spring. Janice also is one of the Springsations poets.

by Linda Baie

Springsations Creations

While Spring had fluctuating temperatures, winds, and rains, National Poetry Month, continued to blossom. During Poetry Month, poetry flowed abundantly at each of the Poetry Friday blogs. When visiting a Poetry Friday Roundup blog, you enter a domain of poetic goodness, a place that holds the breathings of hearts, wonders, joys, and possibly pain. Creative play is encountered, as well as voice.

Now please step into the Creativity Zone where poets write, dreamers dream, and artistic expressions mature from a seed of an idea to an image poem. Discover Springsations, writers' emotional response to what is seen, heard, felt, smelled, and touched during this season of renewal and joy.

Since Poem in Your Pocket Day 2023 occurred yesterday when I started writing this blog post, tuck the above poem in your pocket to inspire your writing.

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Have you seen the vivid new additions to Springsations  Gallery Padlet?

The deadline for submitting an image poem has been extended to May 5th.

Thank you to Poetry Friday poets, Jone Rush MacCulloch, Linda Baie, Bridget Magee, Irene Latham, and Rose Cappelli, for adorning the walls of Springsations Gallery Padlet. Share a poem or carry one of the poems you find on my padlet.

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Please join the Poetry Friday Roundup this week where you will find many poetic voices illustrating their latest National Poetry Month projects. Ruth Hersey, teacher-poet working in Uganda, is our host this week. She asks that we pull up a chair to enjoy the variety of poetic goodness. Please click here.