A Beautiful Sunny Warm Day Poem by Deanna Samuels

A few days ago, it was a most glorious sunny warm day,
a kind of day everyone had been waiting for all winter long.
A perfect day to have trike ride along the path behind house.
There was a real warmth from the sun,
a warmth that had not been felt for many a month.
The sky, a clear azure, the neighborhood awash
with sublime atmospheric gentleness.
It was as though the day stood still, no rush to disturb the air.

Riding by, gardens and lawns once again denoted that
plants were coming to life after combating winter's frozen snow.
Many varieties of spring flowers - white, blue, pink and yellow
appeared in beds, their heads pushing through the now softer earth,
bursting open into this gloriously warm quiet day,
pushing outwards and upwards towards the sun's orange glow.
Noticeable, too, that much garden clean-up had been done,
grass mowed and raked and verges edged and trimmed.

Reaching the hill, we sped down and whisked over the bridge,
enough to induce wooden planks to give a noisy plonkedy plonk.
Looked down from there to see the creek now gently flowing
over the short waterfall and into the stream beyond,
taking it's winding course slowly, meandering through the woods.
Riding along the path, the stillness oozed all around.
Nothing appeared to move. Tall, spent, dried grasses
of season last stood stiffly erect, their stalks faded with age.

Trees and shrubs of all heights and sizes stood motionless.
Everywhere along the path, the woods had taken on a mantle
of sereneness, not even a scampering of woodland creatures
scurrying over grassy mounds or squelchy dips to break such silence.
A few small bushes alongside the path appeared to have revived,
grown stronger in the few short weeks since the ice had melted,
their thin branches stretching out nestling tiny growing buds and
shortly preparing to burst open with fresh green delicate leaves.

The quietness, stillness, peacefulness and warmth
penetrated into every area of the woodland trail,
assuring a perfect ride on a perfect day.


Written at Richmond Hill, Ontario - 29th April 2026