Spring-Hope
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January and February are difficult months which seem as though they will never end. The coming of lighter days at the beginning of March lifts our spirits and brings the hope of Spring.
The month was cold and hard, scarred by frost
and glacial ice, then grained by cutting winds
as Winter sliced through the skin of life
to violate the flesh and bone beneath.
Some weeks before, sparkling strands of tinsel
and glowing golden lights warmed the world
when the frenzy of bought-in entertainment
grew the transient comfort of Christmas.
And then? Pale sunlight, snowdrops, daffodils,
dark rain-soaked earth, bluebells and primroses,
as songs of Spring-Hope from nest-building birds
push away the Winter-weary darkness.
Copyright © Elisabeth Sheaffer | Year Posted 2015
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