Spring Unleashed

Rain rushed in like a concert audience. There’s nothing calm about Spring’s arrival. The specter gusts regrets and survival, Strip limbs for whips — a sore obedience. A path cut through, a cold subservience. The robin’s heavy breast with cheep revival.* A rose depressed in past Spring’s archival. Absence of warmth, enrages audience. A sip of dandelion wine — desire spurs wholesome cheat, complete with snowy seeds. Remembrance of unwrinkled hands - youth’s lore, A marshmallow on spit, and rosy fire. Enhance the peace and love of daisy beads. Unwind the twister’s coil, unleash Spring’s core. 3/21/2018 Greg Cornish’s Petrarchan Sonnet contest cheep - to utter faint shrill sounds : peep, to utter a single word or sound (from Merriam Webster dictionary) Also mimics the word “cheap”