Turning
Turning
You expect green, but, in the mountains,
Spring edges in with head tinted red
and brown carpet slippers, yet
glorious.
After a shower,
even trees dress
for the occasion.
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Poem for Susie Clevenger’s prompt on Real Toads asking for a response to the beautiful lithograph of Mi Young Lee below. Above pic mine. All rights reserved to holder.
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ManicDDaily 
April 22, 2017 at 6:20 pm
Oh, MY. Simply fantastic. That first stanza is DIVINE. The last, so clever. I just love this.
April 22, 2017 at 6:30 pm
Ha–thanks so much. k.
April 22, 2017 at 6:47 pm
Nature has a way of adjusting to its whims. But then it makes for a variety of colors feeding our memory of similar occurrences of days gone by!
Hank
April 22, 2017 at 8:19 pm
It’s do hot and dry here in T+T our Easter Season is like your Spring described
” head tinted red
and brown carpet slippers”
Much love…
April 22, 2017 at 10:12 pm
Love those ‘brown carpet slippers’.
April 22, 2017 at 11:37 pm
I liked this, K. This set me thinking, “in the mountains, Spring edges in with head tinted red and brown carpet … ” about way back when we would go up to Carlsbad, NM, in the early spring. What I do remember is the water from the melting snow carving its way down into the valleys. I don’t remember brown grass. Yet it turns brown about every other winter here, depending on how un mild our coldest winter day is. Frost melts to quickly to cause browning.
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April 23, 2017 at 3:17 am
My understanding seemed to flow seamlessly from your photo to your poem to the abstract image. You must have made it so! 🙂
April 23, 2017 at 8:48 am
Yes! I’ve been thinking about how spring comes in red. This is wonderful, Karin.
April 23, 2017 at 11:55 am
Nature, it knows how to dress. I haven’t thought about spring arriving in red, but your words have helped me see it. Thanks so much for writing!
April 23, 2017 at 1:53 pm
Thanks. I didn’t have good pictures but up in the mountains all the maple trees blossom in red before leafing. I should try to take a pic today as some are still like that. Thanks for kind words.
April 23, 2017 at 6:28 pm
This is soo gorgeously worded.. sigh.. especially love; “Spring edges in with head tinted red and brown carpet slippers, yet glorious.”
April 24, 2017 at 2:12 am
k – you craft the short form deftly and deeply ~