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Toss the “To Do” List
and Take a Walk
You know you want to…
because the sun’s
shining (or it’s gently raining
or cloudy or windy or
snowing) or because
the moon is full or
crescent or new,
waxing or waning,
eclipsed or blue and
the stars are out (or
coming out – or fading), and
Orion (or the big – or little
– dipper or Cassiopeia)
is visible overhead or
on the horizon;
because Venus (Mercury, Mars,
Saturn,
Neptune, Jupiter) is
rising, setting, dazzling
and the Perseids
(Geminids) are positively amazing.
Toss the “to do” list…
because the wild berries (black-, rasp-, blue-,
straw-
or huckle-) are sweet
& ripe and begging to be picked
and the flowers, too (star-
and may- as well as
sweet peas, anemones, jewel
weed, spotted wintergreen,
black-eyed Susan &
Queen Anne’s Lace) are sprouting
(budding, blooming, going
by) and the trees
(maple, oak, magnolia, cherry, dogwood, apple) are
greening (blossoming, changing
color, dropping leaves);
take a walk in the woods…
because the birds (red-winged
blackbirds, bluebirds, catbirds,
red-breasted grosbeaks, robins,
swallows) have arrived
(are mating, nesting,
hatching, fledging) and besides,
the butterflies (fireflies,
dragonflies, damselflies), and
all the busy (lazy) creatures
(chipmunks, turtles, snakes & frogs)
are out and about – courting,
swimming, hunting, sunning, so…
you really ought to
(you know you want to)
because spring (winter,
summer, fall)
is growing older by the
minute
(and so, too, are you).
PSC/Apr-2014
Penned
for Creative Bloomings prompt:
