Birthday Boy in Town

What does a Birthday Boy do in Town ? Why of course – he takes some pictures and writes a poem

To his Sweetheart, Madame Spring


Spring, my delicate white to satin beauty
what can I  trill and sing to thee tremulously
to invite your attentions and soft whispers?


Spring, do you reply saucy rouged with crimson fragrance
and warmth running through your veins –
or is that twisting tendrils of my ardent chains ?


Spring, shifting with your thrill winds
you sparkle and swim in rapturous lights
– bask I breathtaken outside your delights?


Spring, I glance within the accents of your scents
blinking before a swinging,  whirling girl
– are those shades of dew or joyous ruse ?


Spring, Spring are those bulbs and buds quivering
yet to gesture their right to bloom –
or are they boils of bubbling toils and trouble ?


Spring, Spring is that you in chrysalis forming
taking new shape, adding plates, a sinecure shell ?
Or is this the ever time and inevitable … ?


Spring, Spring  to what reflections do I cling ?
Two those I see or those I wish of thee ?
Am I just myself deluding ?


Spring, Spring howl too thistling no more
Your cry and hues have turned chartreuse
Into another world of sycamore.

Images courtesy of Today in the Town’s Gardens and Backalleys