What Ways Are There to Celebrate May?

In the meadow this morning are three horses brown white and grey

and today they are playing and whinnying and galloping and they just don’t stop

and

I think to

myself it must be

that they are feeling like me enveloped in the

warmth and

beauty

of spring.

What ways are there to celebrate May?

The dance of the hummingbirds lighting at the feeder

The sprouting of bleeding heart in the garden

The sudden appearance of a messy birds’ nest above the porch light

(with threads of blue twisted into the mix of brown twigs and grass.)

It’s just the most beautiful spring day

It is warmth and breeze and sunlight 

and a sky of blue crystalline perfection.

And whinny I would if I could to say a humble thank you God

for bringing me to this day to this season to all of my blessings

a house

my health

my grandchild

my husband

my children

my puppy dog

two sisters and a brother

a father and a mother in law

my dear friend Sharon

and on and on and on

like the endless shush and whisper of wind

the sweet twitter of birds

the scarlet tanager I saw with my very own eyes

oh and thanks too for these eyes

which help me to behold  

life and creation and bliss

and hands to write this

this poem.

Amen.

Dedicated to Mary Marino and Sharon Flitterman-King, two AMAZING human beings..