Spring Has Sprung

Spring[1]

With my jacket buttoned

Against the wind,

I felt spring’s warmth

Across my face

As she danced for me,

With flowers in her hair.

On shore near North Shore Mountains

I saw her beauty.

And waded in the water.

Now the sun was warm

As spring sang around me.

Walking in the winter and the

Noise of silent trees;

Feeling the cold of winter

I try to be without spring

         Till she returns

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[1] This poem was crated in 1972.  I recently found one of my poetry notebooks from that period.