Texas Springtime

Cold cobalt skies unfold their lanky limbs The sovereign land awakes in zealous time Where low mesquites abide the feral winds Defiant blooms the lupine in its prime Rainbugs dot the earth in velvet red Ant lions quietly lurk in lethal lairs Dirt daubers cast organ pipes overhead Mockingbirds merrily try out their airs Scissor-tailed flycatchers' semaphores flash Silent songbirds seem incited to sing The wispy wraith of Winter whispers past And harbingers heady heralds of Spring Petrichor, the smell of rain on dry ground! Bluebonnets, the sweetest sight to be found!