Slope woods' snows melt Streams gush, ducks stand one foot beak eye buried in backfeathers, Jerusalem pillars' gold sunlight yellow in window-shine, bright rays spikey-white flashed in mud, coo coo ripples thru maple branch, horse limps head down, pale grass shoots green winter's brown vegetable hair-washed by transparent trickling ice water freshets earth's rusty slough bathed clean, streams ripple leaf-bottomed channels sounded vocal, white light afternoon sky end- Goat bells move, black kids bounce, butting mother's hairy side & tender tit one maa'ing child hangs under Bessie's udder ducks waggle yellow beaks, new grass flooded, tiger cat maeows on barn straw, herb patch by stone wall's a shiny marsh, dimpling snow water glimmers, birds whistle from icecrystal beds under bare bushes, breeze blows rooster crow thru chill light extended from the piney horizon. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A FRIEND'S SONG FOR SIMOISIUS by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY TO THE DRIVING CLOUD by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ONCE IN A WAY by ANTIPHILUS OF BYZANTIUM THE BLASPHEMER'S WARNING; A LAY OF ST. ROMWOLD by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM THE LOAN by SABINE BARING-GOULD |