April Come She Will

April come she will
When streams are ripe and swelled with rain
May she will stay
Resting in my arms again
June she'll change her tune
In restless walks she'll prowl the night
July she will fly
And give no warning to her flight
August die she must
The autumn winds blow chilly and cold
September I remember
A love once new has now grown old

Simon & Garfunkel
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Now fades the last long streak of snow,
Now burgeons every maze of quick
About the flowering sqares, and thick
By ashen roots the violets blow.
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Remember me when I am gone away

Remember me when I am gone away.
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand.
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you planned:
Only remember me: you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had.
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than you should remember and be sad.
~ Christina Rossetti

"Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy."
~ Eskimo Legend

Star Gazer

One cold and solemn winter night,
I paused to view a wondrous star;
A brilliant, luminescent light,
That spoke of heaven from afar.

It hung against the ebon sky,
And as I turned to solitude;
It drew me nigh, with twinkle high,
Then chose to lift my attitude.

For as I stilled to view God's art,
The star at once began to play;
Then merrily, I saw it arc,
To race across the Milky Way.

Encircled by the atmosphere,
The star then paused to give a wink,
And vowed in time to reappear,
But then was gone within a blink.

I sighed, amazed by heaven's boon,
And caught a vision through the haze,
There peeking from behind the moon,
A twinkling light, my star's sweet gaze.

Sherry Pedersen-Thrasher



In one of the stars, I shall be living.
In one of them, I shall be laughing.
And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing when you look at the sky at night.
~ The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"God gave us memories that we might have roses in December."
~ Courage (1922) J.M. Barrie

Ah, Sunflower!

Ah! sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the sun,
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the traveller’s journey is done;
Where the youth pined away with desire,
And the pale virgin shrouded in snow,
Arise from their graves and aspire;
Where my sunflower wishes to go.

William Blake (1757-1827)