A Spring Wind

A spring wind blew through my heart today.

It melted all the ice away in joyful tears.

Feeding the greening part of me,

A heart encased so long

Its beat renewed,

Matching the throbbing of the earth.

*

A spring wind blew through my soul today.

Insistent, it blew the dust away and lightened it,

Sent it soaring into the cloudless sunlit sky

Like the tug of a kite aloft,

Or the thrust of a songbird’s wing in flight.

*

Joy shined its light into each neglected corner,

Suiced off the film of grime,

Polishing a forgotten hoard of precious gems.

I gazed upon it awestruck with a radiant smile.

********************************************

In the Japanese lunisolar calendar, the first of the six spring seasons begins on February 4th and runs through February 18th. It is aptly called the beginning of Spring- risshun (立春) and is composed of three micro seasons:

February 4–8 East Wind Melts the Ice- harukaze kōri o toku (東風解凍)

February 9–13 Bush Warblers Start Singing in the Mountains- kōō kenkan su(黄鶯睍睆)

February 14–18 Fish Emerge From the Ice- uo kōri o izuru (魚上氷)

Thank you for joining me on my travels through a micro-season year of poetry. I invite you to read other poems in the series found in my list Micro-Season Poem Cycle on Medium, which you can read with a Medium subscription. They were originally published by Thomas Gaudex in Scribe between October 2023- October 2024. This year spring seems very far away with 18 inches of snow on the ground in New York State, but hope is just under the surface.

Natalie