Spring in Oklahoma

“Spring comes softly and the sunlight dances on the wind.

Redbud grows wild in the woods and along country roads with the oak, elm, and the black locust.It poses gracefully arms outstretched and tutu of purple. Come and see.

The tulips bloom in a hundred colors where careful hands planted bulbs in the fall. Pink, red, yellow, and orange. White and even black hold their cups up the spring sky for raindrops and sunshine.

Dance in the wind––sing to the sky––show your bright dresses and green spears. Oh tulips, greet the year’s beginning.

Beside the fountain of rushing water yellow and white blooms stand and sing. Birds sing to the sound of water playing- splashing It is the music of spring.

Two purple and white tulips stand like cups like nests filled to the brim with light. Inside is a yellow cross and underneath green stems and leaves hold them up.

Mothers follow their babies through the garden, up and down the paths beside the water and the plots of flowers teaching them to love beauty.

Come you beauties open to the sunlight, close to the night, dance with the wind and soften up souls hardened by winter.

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You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
Psalm 145:16

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