Poetry Corner with Kwesi BISSUE: Younger Than Spring 

When tiny green heads of new plants

Poke up from a freshly parched earth

Around the patches of melting snow

Then know that spring is here

To last

Until another season turns to come around

Then know that life lasts because spring starts

Then know that life longs to last

Long as the greens spring brings

 

When little plants look up

…and hold out tiny leaves towards the sun

…and push roots deep down into the ground

…and spread out roots through the ground

That’s when to spread out

And look up

From spring to spring

 

When dead shrubs

And dying trees

Bounce back in life’s weed

And their withered leaves

…fling open heavenward

That’s when to open your arms

…to embrace life to wither no more

From spring to spring

 

When roots of older plants

Drink the water of spring

They live again on the water spring brings

The water goes up through the plant

And into the new little leaves

That’s when to drink

…to spring to live a new life

Spring after spring

 

Fruits of older trees are not left out

They suck in the water of spring

Water that nurtures to nourish

New fruits that bloom into balls

That’s when water of life

…walks down dry throats

To nourish to bring new life

From spring to spring

 

Then the land turns green

Green that means food

Food that greens the field

Field that has food from many yields

Hunger that now begins to disappear

That’s when to turn from the scarcity

…and tear into the plenty

From spring to spring

 

One more time

Plants and animals

Two living things of some kind

Begin life anew

In the springtime

 

Yet one more time

Man living on the land

A being living

The only kind

Begins life anew

From springtime to springtime

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