This Poem was Submitted By: Lennard J. McIntosh On Date: 2004-05-16 16:28:02 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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They Come and They Return

On the second of May  In the morning light My tired eyes leap flip-flops In an unexpected snowfall That conquers night and day  The flora’s rest gained freedom In the last of April’s rain With lungs exposed           but only for a few days  Ahead of this impulsive cover up          of the chalk-white blanket  With its frozen-crystal trim That envelops           oh so deep  While I cast eyeballs   At each flake that fell after the other     As spruce boughs hang their limbs so heavy  Worn to the grain         by winter labors That fastens their snow burden With a wish to effect the final victory Powder fills each crevasse that dares Open its hand to a late storm        and be forced  Into an unwilling bridal bed  Without space to fabricate a turn  Until a season’s finish  Draws the end’s release Though now            not able to unlock a return  For smile-time and temperate skies The beloved kin sure to follow Certain as natural cycles given Choice in climactic patterns      that returns heavy snows      or rain  On arid country sides       in turn for water once again                   after the journey                      out and beyond the far expanse. 

Copyright © May 2004 Lennard J. McIntosh


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