Promise

It is not raining rain to me, 

It's raining daffodils

Robert Loveman

Promise

By Elece Hollis

Promise of sunshine tightly curled 

In each swelling bud,

Promise of sunshine and warmer days,

Promise of gardens and summer squash,

Promise of blackberries ripening on the bush,

Of cool green shade and sips of sweet lemonade.

Promise so immense it cannot be contained 

In a tiny seed, in a tight stem, in a swollen bud

Promise of sunshine–– break out! 

I am ready for you.

©2014 Elece Hollis , author of Meet God in the Morning, Poems from the Heart of Prayer,

 a devotional book with poems by Helen Steiner Rice. Find this book.