Spring whispers promises and I wait through rain showers, in welcome warming sunshine, past misty mornings, and cool musical evenings. I watch buds on trees pop open and show new leaves and flowers. I watch the sprouts rise to reveal the first wonderful colors with hyacinths, crocuses, daffodils, and tulips in the flowerbeds... Continue Reading →
Spring Comes to the Prairie
Spring Fashion Earth sleeps all winter and in the spring Wakes and yawns and lazes abed; As softly birds begin to sing Warm sunlight streams in and windchimes ching, Dreams and shadows take to the wing Then she lifts and rubs her sleepy head. Suddenly she's up and flings The cumbersome bulky blankets... Continue Reading →
A Wuthering Wearying Wind
The wuthering wind howls outside tonight, whistling at the windows, worrying the chimney, whipping around the house's corners, eaves, and shutters, whimpering at the doors, wanting to come inside out of its own cold. I hear it rattling tree branches, rustling fallen leaves, robbing the porch of anything left loose. I see it ruffling the... Continue Reading →