“Return of Spring”

“Return of Spring”

Let all rejoice, for spring is in the air.
The seasons pass; now is time for rebirth.
We honor you, please Gaia hear our prayer.

No longer will the fields be brown and bare.
Fresh shades of green are seen upon the earth.
Let all rejoice, for spring is in the air.

Our grazing herds will soon have calves to bear.
Fecundity shows with their growing girth.
We honor you, please Gaia hear our prayer.

Our hearts are light; we laugh without a care.
The antics of the young provide our mirth.
Let all rejoice, for spring is in the air.

A portion of our crops, we pledge to share
With all your beasts, as proper for their worth.
We honor you, please Gaia hear our prayer.

The light and flowers make the lands look fair.
Of warmth and cheer, the winter gave us dearth.
Let all rejoice, for spring is in the air.
We honor you, please Gaia hear our prayer.

4-8-07

Villanelle poem structure written in pentameter.
aba, aba, aba, aba, aba, abaa


(The villanelle has 19 lines, 5 stanzas of three lines and 1 stanza of four lines with two rhymes and two refrains. The 1st, then the 3rd lines alternate as the last lines of stanzas 2,3,and 4, and then stanza 5 (the end) as a couplet. It is usually written in tetrameter (4 feet) or pentameter.)