A Book of the Seasons: April 25.

April 25.

Partridge drum as if 

the earth's pulse now beats audibly
with the flow of life.

I stand listening –
silent spaces start to fill.
Summer’s quire begins.
April 25, 1854

 

The bushes ringing

with the evening song of song

sparrows and robins

and the evening sky

reflected from the surface

of the rippled water.

April 25, 1855

Bushes ring with song,
evening sky reflected from
the rippled water.
April 25, 1855

Mosses now in fruit

are warmly red in the sun

when seen from one side.

April 25, 1857

Never made dizzy by

high climbing -- that were born in

the top of a tree.

April 25, 1860

April 25, 2014

A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau
"A book, each page written in its own season,
out-of-doors, in its own locality.”

~edited, assembled and rewritten by zphx © 2009-2019