Seasons they come, and seasons they go
There’s no need to shed tears for summer
She’ll come come back again, when the flower moon glow
And we’ll dance to magic midsummerIt’s springtime again
It’s springtime again
The green man has brought it back to us
Trees budding again
Grass growing again
Time to plant seeds and be joyousSeasons they go, and come back again
Though we might forget during winter
But soon there once more be sun in the glen
And we’ll fill the forest with laughterIt’s springtime again
©RedCat
It’s springtime again
The green man has brought it back to us
Trees budding again
Grass growing again
Time to plant seeds and be joyous
For some reason after reading up on the Green Man I started to think about folk songs and ballads. And one in particular started playing in my head – In folk song tone (I Folkviseton) by Nils Ferlin, a poet who I sang long before I read. It’s a well known love song.
So, I ended up writing a poem that is set to the same tune as Ferlin’s poem. And then making an acapella recording of it. :-)
I’ve had similar ideas befor, but this is the first time I actually managed to pull it together. Which makes me very happy and proud indeed. Maybe someday I will actually reach that elusive song writer place.
To see all art and read all poetry for today go to The Wombwell Rainbow.
Also shared with Open Link Night at dVerse.
John Law “Am 68. Live in Mexborough. Retired teacher. Artist; musician; poet. Recently included in ‘Viral Verses’ poetry volume. Married. 2 kids; 3 grandkids.”
April Ekphrastic Challenge – GloPoWriMo 2021
- 1 April – Dark Orchid
- 2 April – A Dirge for the Drowned
- 3 April – Granddaughters of Red Riding Hood
- 4 April – Raven Dream Flight
- 5 April – It’s Spring Time Again and The Sweetest Wine – A Quadrille
- 6 April – There Once Was A Cat and To All The Good Girls
- 7 April – Mind Finds Soul Fearlessly Shines
- 8 April – Trapped, Imprisoned In Her Own Mind – A Triple Triolet and Ode To My Dream Girl
- 9 April – The Aurora Butterfly – A Sonnet
- 10 April – The Dawn Sky Is Ethereal Blue – A Triolet
- 11 April – Blue Forest Of Remembrance
- 12 April – Incantation to Bau-Gula – A Sonnet
- 13 April – The Stars Are Out Tonight – A Villanelle and Cat Searching High and Low
- 14 April – Shadow People Before My Eyes – A Triple Triolet
- 15 April – Three Times Three Times Three
- 16 April – Autumn feast – A Sonnet
- 17 April – In The Badger Sett
- 18 April – Hellcat
- 19 April – Life Lessons and No Bother! – A Quadrille
- 20 April – Fairy Dust Magic – A Trio Of Ovillejo’s and Crows Calling At Night
- 21 April – Polished Mirror Women – Dedicated to Marisol
- 22 April – Word Salad and A Beltane Song
- 23 April – Floating Around Everywhere and Oh Bother! – A Quadrille in Ovillejo Form
- 24 April – A Thousand Paper Cranes
- 25 April – Change and Restless Body and Mind
- 26 April – Through Hell
- 27 April – Weaving Web and Another Piece Of The Puzzel – A Puente Poem
- 28 April – Sounds In The Wind – A Puente Poem
- 29 April – Fire That Burns Away All Fears – A Sonnet and Blackbirds Dusk Sings
- 30 April – Star Prayer – A Sonnet
The world according to RedCat 
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Thank you! 🌷
A beautiful Springtime song, so full of hope 🍃
Thank you! 🌷
It sings beautifully! A happy springtime song.
Thank you! ❤️
This works beautifully as a song. Loved hearing you singing it and filling it with personality and emotion. How lovely of you to have done all this creative work. It is a gift to your audience. Thank you.
Thank you for your kind comment. ❤️ It was a work of love of spring and song. And the first time in many years I sung publicly so to speak.
Helene, I like the promise of the words in the poem. To hear them put to the hypnotic rhythm of the melody really brings them to life. I love to see your creative spirit flying free <3
Thank you! ❤️ I really loved doing it, so there will probably be more song as time goes by. It feels like I’ve passed some kind of threshold where things I wouldn’t have previously dared to do is just the next step on the journey. 😀
You’re welcome, and Yay! :)
I love the springtime season.
I do too. Good to remember it comes again when the dark winter is looming before us.
May the nature flourishes and fills us with happiness.
That sounds like a line from a prayer. Beautiful thought. I do seek solace and calm from nature often.
This is so beautiful and haunting, Helene – it brought tears to my eyes! The melody is reminiscent of medieval folk songs I have heard, and the lyric is so reassuring, I imagine a mother singing it to her children :-) Thank you for putting this beautiful post together and sharing it with dVerse!
Thank you Ingrid! ❤️ I wanted to keep to the feel of the original even if I changed subject from love to spring. Emotional and soothing. I’ll see if I can find a good translation of the original. I’m humbly grateful that I managed to do it justice.
Many old Swedish folk songs have that medieval touch to them, perhaps because the song tradition here goes back to medieval times and beyond.
I’m blown away with a kind comments. I haven’t sung publicly in twenty years or so. So there where some nerves involved. ☺️
It just shows you were right to trust yourself 😊
The art, the poem, your voice ~~~ stunning.
Thank you so much! ❤️
I like the repetition 🙂
Lovely poem and song – beautiful celebration of spring.
Thank you! 🌹
Beautifully done.
Sweet and hopeful!
Thank you, Mary. :)
Thank you! ❤️
Thank you! 🌹
Great poem Helene! I love the seasonal cycles and am always ready when each one arrives.
Thank you! 🌹 I think I have the cycles in my blood and bones. Anything else would feel utterly strange.
;>)