Spring Day

Spring sunshine wakes me
as it peeps into our room
around curtain edges
proclaiming the promise
of a sunny day.
Such a gentle and joyful alarm call –
wonderful!

Out in our street,
pink blossoms fall like confetti
from cherry trees
and play chasies
with the wind.
Eventually,
some blossoms stretch out
in pink drifts
along kerb stones.
Others transform
the house on the corner
into a house from fairy-land
whose garden is carpeted with blossoms
like pink snow.

Finally,
an evening walk
with a good friend
in the gentle evening sunshine
where we find ourselves
surrounded on all sides
by the multi-coloured splendour
of Spring.

Thank you, Lord,
for warm Spring sunshine
to wake us,
playful cherry blossoms
to make us smile
and good friends
to accompany us
on life’s journey.

© Claire Murray, 28th April 2021