MACRIMA - Marthas blaues Band by MACRIMA

A track for my grandmother Martha who would have celebrated her 98th birthday today on the 19th of March.
She loved the spring poem "Er ist's" from the german poet Eduard Möricke. Every year in spring time she recited it over hundred of times for us when the sky was blue and the warm sun was shining...I can hear her in my head right now and this is a wonderful memory I tried to catch with my piano...

Frühling lässt sein blaues Band
Wieder flattern durch die Lüfte;
Süße, wohlbekannte Düfte
Streifen ahnungsvoll das Land.
Veilchen träumen schon,
Wollen balde kommen.
—Horch, von fern ein leiser Harfenton!
Frühling, ja du bist's!
Dich habe ich vernommen!

Here is an English translation of the poem:

Spring lets his blue ribbons
flutter through the air again.
Sweet familiar scents
drift over the countryside,
full of promise;

violets are already dreaming
of their time time to come.
Listen; the soft sound of a distant harp!
It must be you, Spring;
it is you I have heard.

I miss you, my dear "Ömchen" <3