The idea of seasons shifting in poetry and proverb form has many different sources of inspiration. The poem as we know it today originated in the form of a short poem written by Thomas Tusser in the April section of a collection of writings titled “A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry” as follows:   

“Sweet April showers Do spring May flowers.”   

In 1834, Sara Coleridge published a poem about the months titled “A Calendar” in her “Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children” as follows: 

January brings the snow, 
makes our feet and fingers glow. 

February brings the rain, 
Thaws the frozen lake again. 

March brings breezes loud and shrill, 
stirs the dancing daffodil. 

April brings the primrose sweet, 
Scatters daises at our feet. 

May brings flocks of pretty lambs, 
Skipping by their fleecy damns. 

It is suitable to see the poem up until our current place in the calendar year but also compare it to where we are at as a collective society and what that can mean for you. Going through seasons in contrast and recognizing that some are still facing frostbitten snows of their January, others in the loud and harsh breezes of their own March, and meanwhile others are dancing and frolicking lambs of May.  

Wherever you are at I hope you find the balance you seek.