Inevitable Spring, Invincible Summer

Musing…  

A poem by Ada Limón

 

Instructions on Not Giving Up

 

More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out 

of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s 

almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving 

their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate 

sky of Spring rains, it’s the greening of the trees 

that really gets to me. When all the shock of white  

and taffy, the world’s baubles and trinkets, leave  

the pavement strewn with the confetti of aftermath, 

the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skin 

growing over whatever winter did to us, a return
to the strange idea of continuous living despite
the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then,
I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf
unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all.

 

Kate’s Turn:

Spring in the Midwest has been SO slow to arrive. I saw my first magnolia blossom a week into May. No green leaves yet to be seen. Winter appears to maintain its hold. But the sun’s warmth and increasing light will have its way eventually to manifest the new spring life. Life’s challenges can sometimes linger like the winter and delay or interfere with creative expression. But patient plodding, along with your warmth alighting your garden of creative seeds planted earlier, will bring you to that inevitable spring––and then, to the blossoming and fruition of your initial inspiration. You can draw upon the invincible strength of your creative spirit to push forward in the continuous cycle of creative expression. Take it all! 

 

"I realized, through it all, that in the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger––something better, pushing right back."   

Albert Camus

 

Get Fired Up:  

How can you draw upon your inner resources to push forward and continue your creative expression?

 

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