Welcome, friends,
to the vagaries of Spring,
to Summer-high afternoons
and chill plunging nights.
Here’s to brilliant flowers blooming
nipped by frost the next day.
Are we foolish for loving it?
for celebrating every blue sky?
Yet after Winter, we must.
For to emerge from our hibernation
our layers of clothes
and runny nose
into beams of fresh sunshine,
is to embrace life again.
Oh! To open my eyes and see green!
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After nearly 5 years of not regularly writing poetry, coming back to this is rough. Best of luck to anyone participating in NaPoWriMo this year!