How amazing is this time of transformation in our world.
As the air and the earth soften, the trees project their leaves, meadows emerge, flowers find their colors, wafts of birdsong inform the morning air.
This is the time for opening. Poetry is a way of life and "being open to life in the moment."
It is about seeing the poetry in a face, a conversation, the quality of light, the timbre of a voice, the velvet softness of a petal, the familiarity of a love.
May you find poetry in your life today.
LILACS
Catching their drift
as I walk from the clothesline
to the barn,
I suddenly know
if true love
were in the air,
it would smell like this.
Holding the flower now
as close as I can
in competition with two fat bees
delirious as I,
I see how many colors it takes
to make a lilac.
There is nothing this moment
but breath and petals,
the nectar and the message —
ÀúRemember now and again
to touch the world softly,
with your tiniest fingers."
Ruthanne "Rufus" Collinson is poet laureate for the city of Gloucester.
