Going the Distance With Old Man Winter

PAD Challenge day 4:  For today’s prompt, write a distance poem.

 Yesterday dawned somewhat snowy...

but after emptying its storehouses all day long, today dawns without a blade of grass in sight...

Those pictures that we clung to through long winter’s whitewashed hours

Of April waking daffodils and singing in spring show’rs

Must pause because it seems Old Winter is not willing yet

To fall prey to the way of warmer-whispered pirouette

The wearing will of winter wails and flails where dreams persist

In spite of white anointing where hills should be soft-green kissed

And though we thought bloom-bells ought to be ringing, roaring gale

Gilds April’s world as winds unfurl a snowflake bridal-veil

Be of good cheer, the end is near; winter for all its bluff

And bluster cannot muster for much longer, frosty fluff

So thus he howls, his jowls drip with the gripping undertow

Of visions shaped in flower-gardens draped with April snow

© Janet Martin

...yes, we know spring is on its way...why? Baseball has begun!

Toronto Blue Jays

1-0, 1st in AL Eastern Division

American League

Final - yesterday, 4:05 PM

Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Florida

Toronto Blue Jays (1-0) 5 Tampa Bay Rays (0-1) 3

1:17

Sorry, my fellow-Floridian friends...you get the sunshine and we got the win:)(AND the blizzard;(