A soft constant dripping
Soaks roots
Fills streams
Covers the land in green
Higher elevations
Blanketed in white
It could go on and on
For days
For weeks
Seemingly months
Until Spring
Through Spring
And early summer
Slowly warmth seeps
Back into the days
The light changes
Trees blossom
Flowers bloom
The clouds part
Sky is blue
Sun is out
© 2020 Julie Clark
Welcome Spring
Once again renew our hearts
With hope we cannot otherwise find
Unless you bloom with blossoms pink
And bulbs push up the soggy earth
Unless you conquer winter’s frost
With wind’s strong blasts
And skies that rend the heavy clouds
Welcome Spring
Renew our hearts with joy
To sing the ancient songs that well within
When sights of life and beauty overcome
Calling forth our voices
Our steps will lighten into the dance
Joining all creation as life renews itself again
This time each year
© 2016 Julie Clark
Take a seed, any seed
If you didn’t know what it was
you would write it off as a speck of dust
blowing in the wind.
Yet,
the wind
the rain
the earth and sky
all together working
with the DNA
encased in the hard shell
and the far-reaching possibilities
of that seed are immense
as the stars in sky
and the sand
on the shore.
Each of us
a seed
blowing on the wind
falling then planted
growing.
The potential for good
is great
for making a difference
on the earth
among all people
to be peacemakers
lovers of God and man.
It’s all there from the beginning
locked away and waiting
to be released
in the right time.
Seed of David, Seed of God
Son of Man, Son of God
bringing peace on earth
We hear
heaven is coming
and we will see the King.
Even so
come.
© 2013 Julie Clark
This time of year
I am grateful for the evergreens
When their fickle deciduous neighbors are
Shedding their colors right and left
Clogging up the drains
All bare bones and branches now
The evergreens at least
Are holding out
Not making any
Hasty decisions
Except the ever always decision
To hang onto what they have
As long as they can
And keep reaching
Towards the sky
© 2013 Julie Clark
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