The First Flowers

February 26, 2013 · Filed under awards and prompts, gardening, hope, nostalgia, poetry and quotes, postaday, prompts, Uncategorized · Tagged 20 Lines or less, daffodills, filowers, flowers, hope, joy, love, postaday, spring, wind, winter

The biter winds howls through the pines above us.

I walk, arms gripping my shoulders, down the hill.

There among the sharp spines of rosemary, the bare dirt,

A paperwhite has struggled through the soil.

Time passes, a few weeks later, I notice the buds of daffodills

and suddenly, it seems they are in full bloom.

With winter not wanting to say farewell, spring has forced his bitter wind away.

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