Ode to Spring.

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Oh, Spring, Spring!  How I adore you.  

Your vibrant green branches 

sway in a gentle breeze while...

 Snow?  Is that SNOW???

Um... K...

Your vibrant green branches 

sway in a gentle breeze torrid gust 

while the smell of new life floats large, fluffy white flakes float

as feathers

to the newly awakening grass...

 Er...

Um...

to the newly covered grass.

Your clear blue sky fog-wrapped, gloomy sky

 warms my winter soul is... um...

snowy.  And cold.

Like the ground.

Uh... Sigh.

My bare toes itch to feel your fresh grass...

or...

maybe...

My boot-clad, calloused and dry winter-skinned feet 

struggle to kick open the door

against your heavy drifts...

And you beckon me to sit and relax on the porch 

basking in a subtle warmth

and you beckon me back inside the furnace-induced warmth

of my house.

 Alas!  The barren branches of barren trees

burst with buds and blooms of life

 even more snow.

And...

more snow.  Everywhere.

The plants that struggled to the surface 

now weep in your frigid embrace.

This door, once so open and inviting 

will close against your insistence on wind and storm.

While the earth sleeps still under a blanket of white.

and instead of stripping off layers of winter chill, 

the children dress as eskimos 

 to play in your feeble rays of sun.

The end.

This post was alternately titled, "Why I Hate March."
AKA, "Why I Hate March in Wisconsin."


With a subtitle of, "Spring Winter Storm Ezekiel."  Because we name our storms like hurricanes here, and this was the fifth HUGE storm of 2011.


I'd say I'm done with it, but I believe I've made my stance clear.

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