SPRING AWAKENINGS

WRITTEN IN THE COMBINED FORM OF ABECEDARIAN USING END RHYMED COUPLETS

 

 

 

Spring Awakenings

 
As the earth dances in a stately minuet about its celestial lover      
Bringing forth in its progression a season of rebirth and colour

Conferring on the land and air an anticipation of sweet romance
Dawn lights the clear blue sky as the earth pirouettes in its dance

Everywhere the dance of the sun overthrows the mantle of white
Fingers of ice loose their hoary grip freeing imprisoned fairy and sprite

Gone is the stillness of river and stream, bonds broken are now so fleet
Having been released to join the world in its magical dance so sweet

In valleys a carpet of snowdrops dance under newly dressed trees
Joyfully rainbows of wild flowers lift their heads in slow graceful degrees

Kissed gently with the love of the sun those that slumbered through
Long days of ice and snow now arise to join the dance and life renew 

 
Meandering brooks reflect the colours of gossamer wings dancing above 
Nascent larvae spin and twirl through shimmering crystal to a song of love

Over mountains high the soaring eagle watches life’s dancer’s move to the dream

Purple, red and pink a rainbow of perfumed colour is everywhere to be seen
Quietly bees move in perfect harmony with the dance as it has always been

Rivers once barren now teaming with life striving against the flow
So return to their beginnings, the dance draws them on with its glow

The dance brings all together and the joy of new life is the songs refrain

Upon the highest peak the cloak of white continues its frigid reign
Victory for the Suns fiery dance unattained still one icy realm does remain

Winter’s promise is here written that its dance shall usurp the land again
Xerxes in all his splendour does not compare to this timeless battle so arcane

Yet still the dance goes on for its brief time as the riot of life covers our earth
Zealous are the gods of our world’s beauty when they sing the song of rebirth.


Written 27/02/2015