Spring Reborn

The vigilant Knight of Winter stretched out his frost-lined hand Gauging temperature changes over the desolate land His trailing snowy mantle skirts the overhanging bower Welcoming dawn's re-emergence this sun rising hour Solitary Knight no wish to remain Sentinel to nature, grave cast in all but name Then emerging cautiously from a shrub's fern-like spears The maidenly form of Spring appears Dew caught sunbeams cascading down her plait of corn stalked wheat turning brown In a dress of peat with grass stained folds And network tracery of germinating moulds Purple star aubretias crown her hair She glances to see her Knight's enraptured stare Lachrymose Spring sinks softly sobbing Lamenting her Winter Knight so true Could our separation be forever Alas, no time left to renew The eternal link between us both She sighs, "Maybe when autumn leaves comes forth?" Winter chides," Don't forget, May the Summer Miss" Surrendering the embracing Seasons kiss Responsive blackbird on the branch above With bobbing head and throat a throbbing Sings an unbridled song of love Winter reassures, but no longer calms Her piteous pleas for continuance A proposal to his Spring formed wife "From my demise I give you life There is work to be done on the earthly plane Then we shall reunite to begin again" "Why wait" Spring pleads, trying to turn it around "No time", he murmurs, "look about you, it is here on the ground, "your awakening". Adoringly her encircles her so Against the raw world of sleet and snow In dreamlike slumbers they disappear Only Spring reawakens to her seasonal year.