Classic Spring Poems

“What is a tiny insignificant seed that, when Spring arrives, It should not be annihilated for a tree to arrive.”

Rumi

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo

True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.

In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring.

Rumi

Spring is truly here and things are beginning to bloom beautifully.

“I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing. And sweet to remember. We are nearer to Spring than we were in September. I heard a bird sing in the dark of December.”
― Oliver Herford

"A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period –
When March is scarcely here

A Color stands abroad
On Solitary Fields
That Science cannot overtake
But Human Nature feels.

It waits upon the Lawn,
It shows the furthest Tree
Upon the furthest Slope you know
It almost speaks to you.

Then as Horizons step
Or Noons report away
Without the Formula of sound
It passes and we stay –

A quality of loss
Affecting our Content
As Trade had suddenly encroached
Upon a Sacrament."

Emily Dickinson

The snow of yesterday

that feels like cherry blossoms

in water once again.

Koshigaya Grozan

1717-1787

Again, the season of Spring has come
and a spring-source rises under everything,
a moon sliding from the shadows.

Rumi

John Denver