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Lost Spring

What if spring hadn't come this year?
What if we'd jumped smack into summer?
BUMMER!
I'm thinking of Schumann's Spring Symphony -
If such a thing had happened to him
There would be no Spring Symphony
I'm thinking of Beethoven's Spring Sonata
Same thing -
I'm thinking of all the rosy poetry
Hey!....no Berlin's "Easter bonnet with all the frills upon it"
I'm thinking of lovers on park benches
Keeping each other warm on a slightly chill May night
Thinking of scadzillions of little green zits on starved tree branches
How that first warm breeze smiles the system from head to toe
    to one great gulp of joyous laughter
What if summer doesn't come this year?
Worry about that later
SPRING IS HERE!

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Andrea Dietrich

Date: 12/29/2010 9:23:00 PM

ooh lalala. A really good one I somehow never saw before. I really like this, DAver. And I came immediately to it, one that I had never seen before!! Luv, Andrea

David Smalling

Date: 5/6/2009 7:16:00 AM

Daver, I want to tell you how much I admire your writing and support ... this poem is like a movement or a concerto ... I love it as an act of celebration that make meaning of our existential now. Love always.

Arany P.

Date: 3/25/2009 4:32:00 AM

BUmmer... thats how it would be.. but here where i live we usually skip to summer cause springs in the desert are not likely! ~ Arany

Amy Swanson

Date: 3/12/2009 11:01:00 AM

This is cute and YAY Spring is here! Well it's supposed to be here, but tell that to the weatherman who said we are supposed to get *SNOW* tonight! LOL Doesn't that snow know it's time to go already? Sheesh! haha :P Love this one about spring, especially the references to Spring songs, I thought that made it just perfect and the ending is right on! Love, Amy :)

Carolyn Devonshire

Date: 3/10/2009 12:20:00 PM

Daver, I'm glad spring provides a quiet period of peace before summer's heat. Great upbeat tempo in this poem. Awesome words: "scadzillions of little green zits on starved tree branches." These starving trees feed allergies. In Florida, winter turns to summer almost overnight and I'm aching from sunburn. Your poem makes me miss the "true" springs I knew when I lived in New Jersey. Thanks for your comments on my new poems. Much love, Carolyn

Giselle Sun

Date: 3/4/2009 12:59:00 PM

Well, I'm in California, so Spring is here! Thank you for sharing such a lovely piece.

Carrie Richards

Date: 3/3/2009 12:43:00 PM

Sometimes up here where we live, spring almost gets lost ....between bitter cold, and freakin' hot. We'll take any second of spring fever that we can get!! This was a poem to make me smile!! ~Carrie

Sharon Winter

Date: 3/3/2009 12:10:00 PM

OMG, Ok my favorite line "...scadzillions of little green zits on starved tree branches..." Only you Daver, could possibly come up with a line like that. In fact, the whole wonderful poem, the music, the enthusiasm, the life - it has YOU written all over it! Ta Da Aweasome!!! We still have about 9 inches of snow, but if you say Spring is here, I believe ya! Love, Shar