This is the time
When spring turns
All glory…
All golden tulip and lilac flower…
Early birdcall each hedgerow…
The perky robin bouncing along
Midst grassy expanse,
Head cocked, listening, listening…
This is the time,
Nearer summer’s radiant entrance
Onto wild nature’s open stage…
Trillium will soon be here one supposes…
The green mosses resplendent
In the spring rains…
Soon all will be the beauty of roses, of lily
Of fully leaved branch and tree…
This is the time
The world is in full bloom
Everywhere a glorious sunlit sky
Azure recall and dream…
And oh! so soon!
All the great beauty each full summer’s day…
Time of a greatest awe,
Time of a magnificent reflection,
All of joy, all of wonder…
Bev Gorbet is a Toronto poet. She has published several poems with the Retired Teachers Organization and most recently in “Literary Connection IV: Then and Now” (In Our Words Inc., 2019), edited by Cheryl Antao Xavier.
Nina Munteanu is a Canadian ecologist / limnologist and novelist. She is co-editor of Europa SF and currently teaches writing courses at George Brown College and the University of Toronto. Visit www.ninamunteanu.ca for the latest on her books. Nina’s bilingual “La natura dell’acqua / The Way of Water” was published by Mincione Edizioni in Rome. Her non-fiction book “Water Is…” by Pixl Press(Vancouver) was selected by Margaret Atwood in the New York Times ‘Year in Reading’ and was chosen as the 2017 Summer Read by Water Canada. Her novel “A Diary in the Age of Water” was released by Inanna Publications (Toronto) in June 2020.
Nina Munteanu Writing Coach 
There’s something about spring that causes poetry to flower in the soul.
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Beautifully said, my poet friend…
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