The Art of April...(Home of the Masters;-)

  PAD Challenge day 12: For today’s prompt, take the phrase “The Art of (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem 

 Every year Ontario-ans have a love-hate affair with April!

Artist that fuels the optimist’s grin

While colors duel twixt winter and spring

Sepia surface primed for floods of green

Suffers the surges of caught in-between

While high and low flings its yearly travail

Seasonal seesaw of zephyr and gale

Eager eyes scanning the soft-swelling bud

Waiting for wonders to fan from the mud

Where April’s artist, brush dripping with flow’rs

Teases the landscape with snow-stippled showers

Vexing and cheering with gold gilt then white

Unleashing tides of chagrin and delight

While hearts and temps, like golf-balls, soar then drop

Annual tug-of-war in Time’s weather-shop

Teaching the patron of petal-plumed flit

The fine art of patience while waiting for it

© Janet Martin

Ir's Master's Weekend! Looks like a good one. Enjoy!