Stick your Nose Into a Tulip...(and other simple pleasures)

A week ago my cousin gifted me this midwinter splash of spring...the initial inspiration for today's poem For a taste of spring, when it's not!and other simple pleasures... Stick your nose into a tulip... Sip some lemon-spritzed delight... Page through gardens, picture-perfectWaiting while the world blooms white... Take a 'tropical' vacationVia pages in a book... Dream a summer celebration/destinationOn the bank of frozen brook Stick your nose into a tulipSip some lemon-spritzed delightPage through gardens, picture-perfectWaiting while the world blooms white Take a tropical vacationVia pages in a bookDream a summer celebrationOn the bank of frozen brook Make the most of words like 'cozy'Before tasks of sweat-and-tillUnearth work gloves resting easyFor a little longer, still Stoke home-fires with thanksgivingThank God for warm, fuzzy socksSay a prayer for people livingUnder bridges in a box🙏💔 Be content to sing and putterMake a decadent dessert(never mind the extra butter) 😉😅A few winter treats won't hurt Chuckle at the chubby juncoWatch the birds without a clockDictating strict marching ordersWith nothing but tick and tock Pour a second 'second coffee'Mindful of a subtle stringDrawing winter, like a tugboat Closer and closer to spring Tromp/ski through snow-swaddled creationWith an ear tuned to a climeWhere green and violet arrangementsWill emerge in perfect time Though the sunshine, brief and sallowCannot melt the snowy strandWe know soon its warmer yellow  Will trump Old Man Winter's hand So, stick your nose in a tulipSip some lemon-sparkly blissPage through gardens, picture-perfectWhile the sun fine-tunes her kiss Janet Martin Pour a second 'second coffee'... Chuckle at the chubby junco... Watch the birds without a clock... - Praise and Harmony Lyrics Song by Keith & Kristyn GettyMagnificent, marvelous, matchless love;Too vast and astounding to tell.Forever existing in worlds above,Now offered and given to all.Oh fountain of beauty eternal;The Father, the Spirit, the Son.Sufficient and endlessly generous:Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.Creation is brimming with thankfulness,The mountains, exultant they stand;The seasons rejoice in Your faithfulness,All life is sustained by Your hand.You crown every meadow with color;You paint every shade in the sky;Each day the dawn wakes as an encore ofMagnificent, marvelous, matchless love.How great, how sure;His love endures forevermore.Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.What grace, that You entered our brokenness;You came in the fullness of time.How far we had fallen from righteousness,But not from the mercies of Christ.Your cross is our door to redemption;Your death is our fullness of life.That day, how forgiveness flowed as a flood:Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.How great, how sure;His love endures forevermore.Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.United in Your resurrection,You lift us to infinite heights.Could anything sever or take us fromMagnificent, marvelous, matchless love.How great, how sure;His love endures forevermore.Magnificent, marvelous, matchless love.