This poem is the opening segment of a trilogy of pieces within Spring Suite. This is pure, traditional free verse, open ended, free form language, pulsing out in rhythms designed to emulate the energy of the theme. I wanted to create an upbeat piece, full of music and images of instruments and light, as spring emerges like the view from a window as the frost melts in early spring, with all its color, all its promise. There are also not so subtle Christian connotations to this, especially at the end, in the image of the thorned rose and the allusion to the resurrection of Christ, freeing the sinner and bringing him up to dance like the flowers, with joy. estory

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