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Spring’s Rush

Posted on March 26, 2025, by Martha Alderson CoL

Close-up of tight clusters of small, pink flowers on a tree branch.

In spring’s rush

buds push

like impatient children,

in a tearing hurry,

desperate it seems

to grow into lushness.

And I, like a doting parent,

beg them to linger

in their adorable childhood;

small and barely green,

their incipient color,

plump with potential.

Though the promise of fullness

is, in its way,

a joy beyond measure,

there is this reluctance

for the inevitability of maturity.

Oh, do grow and blossom;

acknowledge your lovely part

in the circle of life – and death.

But not yet … not yet.

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Martha Alderson CoL

Martha Alderson has been a Loretto Co-member since 1984. She is retired from the publishing industry and more recently from being on the Loretto Community staff as coordinator of co-membership services. She served one term on the first Community Forum. For several years she was an editor and layout person for Interchange (Loretto's internal newsletter) and now edits two issues of that newsletter. At the present she is on the Special Needs Committee and the Motherhouse Coordinating Board. She does the occasional proofreading and editing of Loretto publications.