Hope Springs Eternal

Sunlight on the snow;
Then clouds shift to gray again;
Winter weather dance.

How is it so warm
When the world is coated white
With frozen water?









Bucket's not empty;
It stood there while it was filled
With falling snow flakes.










These plants are slender
That poke up through the thick snow.
Fence not so lucky.










Snow bird in tree trunk
Looks into the gray blank sky,
Watching the weather.












Frail old milkweed pod
Holds its seeds against the snow--
Hope springs eternal.

Still the brown leaves hang
Like holey sails in the wind,
Fluttering weakly.









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Crazy lady screams;
I cannot hear what she says
Or what she's feeling.