Dianne White

My niece is getting married tomorrow and spring is in the air. The family has flown in from various places, with more arriving later today. Most of us are staying in a beautiful house on a small canal off Okanagan Lake.

Family members are chipping in to make sure the day is special. Yesterday, we worked on flower arrangements.  While one of the family trimmed and began to collect vases, I sat in the kitchen with rolls of ribbon, beads, small silvery decorations, and a glue gun, assigned with the task of decorating the mason jars my niece had chosen to hold arrangements that would be scattered around the house.

It’s cloudy in Kelowna today, but with beautiful bouquets scattered throughout the house, birds darting above the canal, a wedding and Easter just a day or more away, it’s spring.

In the spirit of new birth and new beginnings, my offering for Poetry Friday is Robert Frost’s poem, “A Prayer in Spring.”

Here’s how it begins:

A Prayer in Spring Robert Frost (1915)
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.

Enjoy the rest of the poem here.