Friday 1 March 2024

March

 

March bustles in on windy feet and sweeps my doorstep and my street


It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade


March, when days are getting long,
Let thy growing hours be strong to set right some wintry wrong



March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs,

bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, 

each followed by a frosty pink twilight 

which gradually lost itself 

in an elfland of moonshine



March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes, and a laugh in her voice


Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour


To welcome her the Spring breath’s forth Elysian sweets; 

March strews the Earth With violets and posies



March brings breezes loud and shrill, stirs the dancing daffodil


In March winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too


March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers


Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn


March is the month of expectation, the things we do not know


In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground


Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty


Despite March’s windy reputation, winter isn’t really blown away; it is washed away. It flows down all the hills, goes swirling down the valleys and spills out to sea. Like so many of this earth’s elements, winter itself is soluble in water…


March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again


By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and the world would wake into itself again


The stormy March has come at last,
With winds and clouds and changing skies;
I hear the rushing of the blast
That through the snowy valley flies


This is the perfume of March: rain, loam, feathers, mint