:: Winter, fare thee well
WELCOME, SPRING
Tired gray piles
of granular snow
sit slumped by the roadside
waiting to melt
in the warm noonday sun.
Beneath them
the slender
and varicose
leaves of crocus
tentatively, cautiously,
poke their heads up
through the soil.
With each day,
the piles recede
and the grass-like blades
grow taller.
Eventually
(finally!)
the snow does melt
and the crocus do
pop out
to welcome Spring.
I was inspired by April’s being National Poetry Month, and by the crocus photos I took recently, and the unseasonably warm & sunny weather we’ve been having of late, to write and post this poem today — Welcome, Spring!
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ED. NOTE: This entry was first posted on Blogger, under the handle “ampersandblogger,” in April 2009. : : kf, 7/25/19
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