A Sense of Spring

 

 

It felt a bit like Spring today

 

But not upon my skin

 

The air was cold, the sky was gray

 

And my jacket was too thin

 

 

The new calves were sitting tight

 

Against their mothers backs

 

 Pools of water reflected light

 

 In the cattles frozen tracks 

 

 

 

It was not a bright warm sun

 

Nor  new buds upon the trees

 

(Though those can't come soon enough

 

For an old cowboy like me)

 

 

No, it must have been the sound

 

Of the Redbirds' "pretty" call

 

The Robins coming back around

 

After leaving us last Fall

Could've been the shoots of green

Of  Daphodils on the rise

Or thousands of honking geese

Flying north across the skies


Yes, I felt it in my bones

Sure as a man can feel a thing

At the ranch, Winter's come and gone

And I  sense the birth of Spring
 

K.L. Dennie 2014