Today's Tears - Vermont spring poem

Today’s Tears

Bernie 

Wipe away the tears

of which north winds promote,

for the promise of warmth

which our eyes tell us the sun carries

soon will deliver

spring 

to summer.

From shivering winds

to refreshing breezes,

for such are the seasons

first delivered in anticipation

swallowed in earnest

rendered old and forlorn

replaced and nearly forgotten

only to come again

refreshed and refreshing

like dewdrops on a summer morning

frost on a pumpkin

snowflakes in (god help us not May) January.

Today's tears bring rise to tomorrow's flowers.