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Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice

Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice Rather than be a day late and dollar short, I opted to post poem acknowledging the second of February, where eponymous groundhog gets his (most often male) foretelling whether there will be six more weeks of winter upon oblate spheroid generating hoopla whether spring will arrive early and satiate those folks who favor spring. Already noticeably marked increase in daylight yours truly courtesy affected qua heliotropic phenomenon finds me noggin gently being tugged upward and westward ho toward sun after dark mine talking head rests downward and eastward and as a humble Earthling bows sayonara to Gaia. Soon very indistinct environmental intimations regarding onomatopoeic ubiquitous murmurings, whereby old man winter ever so faintly relinquishes, loosens, forsakes... Judas Priest Iron Maiden grip upon emergent biosphere suddenly awakened when Mother Earth generates invisible signals transmitted across world wide web analogous to conductor standing on podium with baton in her/his hand orchestra playing on cue perhaps choice selection Rite of Spring work by Russian composer Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky or Flight of the Bumblebee written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Soon dormant species will exhibit rebirth out their linkedin hibernation flora and fauna tentatively begin to issue forth out their slumbers shoots poke thru across terra firma insync with twittering tweeting creatures hint viz verdant and/or fecund potential ready to burst forth and proliferate instinctively trumpeting joie de vivre. Sensational show stopping, eye catching breathtaking... parade of sights and sounds await buzzfeeding eyes and ears about six weeks hence, within mine home box office here at Highland Manor apartments quite affordable rent allows, enables and provides radiant quiescence, preponderant observance, nonresistant magnificence, jubilant innocence, exuberant deliverance, concurrent buoyant abundance. Accordingly and allegedly other than meteorologists plenti schooled ascertaining onset of temperate air more particularly otter den non humans unassumingly (ferreted out), who bear the tidings, when that season of rebirth dawns with crystal clear blue skies, and terrain where deer and antelope eagerly play without despair purportedly realized, reassured, recounted...drear re: days vamoosed foretold by Punxsutawney Phil, or one of his progeny on Groundhog Day February second - requires one with acute hearing to cock, and ear turnips tickling the nose nostrils delicate hairs (instagram ideal outlook) subtly, markedly, lively..., yet gently flair soon harkening shrieks of delightful analogous funfair no stranger to Renaissance Faire of pitch perfect gamesomeness will seem as... otherworldly pleasant ah heaven sent giftware, where all creatures great and small sing psalms, upon arrival when hardware trappings of winter shucked witnessing unrolled welcome Scottish mat so hare and tortoise can race, cuz vernal equinox, sports a linkedin improvisational, ebulliently educational, cerebral, audiological... twittering melange I will hear, and grateful no defect doth impair ability to revel silence, slake, soak... insatiable thirst even prodding junketeer, panhandler, vendor... the last named, perhaps selling kitchenware knicknacks, keepsakes... to hippies, and/or aging long hair pencil neck geeks (think yours truly) with long wavy hair interwoven with Kahila Garden Lily, Laurel, Maidenhair... profusion of sensual delight brings Mother Earth near, the body, mind, and soul espying frolicsome *****sapiens donned with minimal outerwear infusing all living things common native plants and animals in conjunction with resident outlier particularly those pining to answer call of the wild overdare ring and bee zee lee court'n prepare ring to beget young as singular requisite quintessential profiteer fluttering, instagramming emoji, sans shutterfly puppeteer as audience visually already reddit regarding acting entire scenes, viz Biblical Genesis answering prayer particularly if gnostic, heterodox, *****..., finally relieved, sans polar vortex albeit somewhat rare atmospheric phenomena, how ideal if said rabid Jack Frost would sink icy bite - part and parcel green gang at much more favorably time reappear during oppressive heat spell during sweltering triple digits temperature summer re: at various times throughout the year across the world arbitrarily and randomly zeroing in on The Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Kinshasa, DRC, DR Congo, or simply the Congo and known from 1971–1997 as Zaire.

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