A Poet's Spring

Winter’s snowy mantel is quietly disappearing Slowly he abdicates his reign until next year This year’s queen is putting on her freshest dress Every day its tender colors blushingly appear … The heart of every hungry poet gladdens now The joy of renewal must now be put to pen What was a dream becoming reality once again And words flow from that hidden place within….. Frantically we write of fields of yellow daffodils The lamb’s bleat, the new bud upon the branch Emotions twist and turn about in springtime breezes And happily we explore the flavors of this year’s romance… 3/16/16