Chalfont, Pennsylvania
To rest beneath a canopy of sky
Dappled by euphoric blossoms
Pink as dawn and fragile
To think of nothing more than whence
Originates the panoply of enveloping scents
Compelling as vanilla to one bereft
Of one scintilla of sweetness
To see no more than palettes of pinks
Reds greens and skyward blue
And every pastel rainbow hue
Mesmerized to close my eyes
Still see with eyes wide shut
The satin of the softly wispy skies
The overladen drooping crabapple tree
Dropping a carpet of petals beneath its
Rounded motherly arms that reach
For every child that reaches upward
That embraces every child that steps into it
To be in pinkest of pink places
Face to face with blossom kisses
To breathe in and in and in and exhale
As slowly as the taste of honey
Melts into the mouth
This is Spring in May!
Previously published: When Awoken Sing, Amazon.com; Gathering Gallery, Doylestown Corinne-Valerie Marin has published two anthologies, When Awoken Sing, and Clear Skies Ahead, and FM Poetry quarterly journals, on Amazon.com and in Gathering Gallery, Doylestown. She also paints and gardens since retiring from bilingual teaching in California. She moved here for her daughter and grandchildren.
Poet’s Corner is curated by Bucks County Poet Laureate Emeritus Tom Mallouk and supported by a grant to the Bucks County Herald Foundation made possible by Marv and Dee Ann Woodall.
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