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Spring Is Not All Rainbows and Butterflies

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Ah, Spring: each laden cloud more rain delivers, that soaks our clothes and in our new shoes sloshes. Our streets blockaded thanks to pregnant rivers, with mud tracked in the house from kids' galoshes. Ah, weeds: the bane of ev'ry gardener! Unwanted life that fouls our garden's bliss. Dear mother nature, we must pardon her for her green demons turning Spring amiss. Ah, noise: new Vernal life creates a riot as crickets, birds, and frogs return to form. It makes one long for Winter's tranquil quiet - not all is calm when days grow long and warm. Come March, not all is magically renewed - with rain and weeds and noise, Spring's downright rude! written 30 Jan 2023

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Marikate Kingston

Date: 8/29/2024 8:24:00 PM

Ahh... spring, a season that is so bittersweet. Mud, damp, grey and then next, a warm butterfly day. "Spring's downright rude!" Great line. My favorite stanza is your third. You're right, it's wonderful when smells, sounds and beauty come back. That time always makes me happy as does your poem! :)

Katharine L. Sparrow

Date: 5/4/2023 7:46:00 PM

I love it! Spring where I live (Cape Cod, Massachusetts) is usually nasty, rainy and cold! You inspired me to post one I wrote a few years ago about spring called "Concurring With Millay". It's not a nice sonnet, like yours, it's free verse. But I do appreciate sonnets, I write them often myself! Well done, once again!

Joanna Daniel

Date: 3/4/2023 7:28:00 AM

Excellent work, John, congratulations on top win:)

Ann Peck

Date: 3/3/2023 12:38:00 PM

So clever and funny and true! Love your last line!

Mark Massey

Date: 3/3/2023 9:21:00 AM

John, your rhyme scheme is outrageous... in a good way. I will be incorporating some of those pairs like sloshes & galoshes, somewhere down the line - not sure where yet but it will happen! Great write and thanks for visiting mine.

Heidi Sands

Date: 3/3/2023 8:56:00 AM

Congratulations for your great win :)

Margarita Lillico

Date: 3/3/2023 7:09:00 AM

Congratulations, John! Awesome poem! We about to be rudely awaken:)

Paula Goldsmith

Date: 3/3/2023 5:41:00 AM

Congratulations on your win. A fun write/picture. Rain will bring the mud. Have a great/blessed day......................

Christuraj Alex

Date: 3/3/2023 2:40:00 AM

"with rain and weeds and noise, Spring's downright rude" - The other aspect of spring is beautifully brought out. Congratulations!

Michelle Faulkner

Date: 3/2/2023 3:42:00 PM

Congratulations John on your first place with this charmer about the other side of spring, so glad you entered (also will send soupmail soon!)

Jennifer Proxenos

Date: 2/12/2023 8:01:00 AM

I really enjoyed this write and what a sensational poem you have created about Spring, for all you mention is quite true and I hate finding out that a few of our plants were destroyed by Winter's cold which we sadly notice in Spring, not all plants survive, depending on the previous seasons severity. I had a good laugh at your last two lines. Hope you are keeping well my friend, Hugs and blessings. Jennifer.

Sally Eslinger

Date: 2/7/2023 5:33:00 PM

Aha, John! I agree with your points. I even like winter’s cold, outside anyway, & like the no insects of it. Here in Kentucky, spring can get TOO hot overnight. And spring storms are a real issue! Often have to keep ipad open on radar to watch a possible tornado move street by street across the city. Goodness! Your poem flows better than rain! 8-) sally

Sara Kendrick

Date: 2/7/2023 3:57:00 AM

I like your thoughts on some of the changes that spring brings, but some not being exactly what you would desire. Your work reads like a good contender to me for the contest. In my opinion, a good job. Thanks for sharing and for dropping by my page. Sara

Shirley Hawkins

Date: 2/4/2023 2:44:00 PM

Spring is not all rainbows and butterflies. Spring is like everything else in life, good and bad. Well put, John Good luck in the contest. Take care, Shirley

John Lawless

Date: 1/31/2023 10:58:00 AM

Unlike fall, which has a second name Autumn, spring is called many things and answers to all of them

Joanna Daniel

Date: 1/31/2023 5:11:00 AM

Well expressed, John, there are few down sides to every season, I guess:)

Anselmo Boles

Date: 1/30/2023 4:33:00 PM

I totally appreciate you John, for writing this other side of reality, that I'm not the only one who scribbles the sometimes tough, real daunting challenges of the seasons...other than flowers, pristine rivers and rainbows and bright stars at night, etc. Not that I don't admire nature's exhilarating beauty because I truly do, and yet for you to outline a picture and show acceptance of the duality of human existence, is admirable. I have noticed that not so many who write, dare. Cheers!...ab

Panagiota Romios

Date: 1/30/2023 11:53:00 AM

Best to you, John. Even tho I like all seasons. In the Midwest, Spring tis the best! Living now in Wine Country, it’s the tops…….And baseball season opens! What could be better! Panagiota xx

John Watt
Date: 1/30/2023 4:05:00 PM

Hi Pangie, my tongue-in-cheek side got the better of me in this one... I think in many places where Summer and/or Winter have weather extremes, Spring or Fall are preferred. But I'm definitely excited about baseball every April! Love your reply, many thanks. Hugs ~ John

Tom Cunningham

Date: 1/30/2023 10:40:00 AM

You're so right John, early spring can be a total washout. Give me summer anytime Hope you're keeping well. Tom

John Watt
Date: 1/30/2023 10:42:00 AM

I used to love splashing in mud puddles when I was a kid... I guess I'm a bona fide geezer now, lol. All is well, thanks for the visit ~ John

Ilene Bauer

Date: 1/30/2023 10:22:00 AM

Brilliantly described, John!

John Watt
Date: 1/30/2023 10:42:00 AM

Thank you, Ilene. I let my cynical side grab the pen every now and then, lol.