year end

Christmas gone. again
and the New Year begins to shoot its piercing rays
through fog and smog and yesterday.

No more unwrapped gifts
and it's much too soon to guess or ask for next year
though soon enough to give and be.

The snow white cover,
winter's gentle blanket, tucks away the past,
becomes the new and better day.

So Now It's Spring

Fall was in a hurry,
and Winter rushed right by
so now it's Spring, but swiftly so
for Summer's nearly nigh.

hurry! see the Blossoms
quick! catch the Morning Dew
the little Lambs born yesterday
will soon be Ram and Ewe.

hold fast to fleeting Innocence
and Leaves of changing green.
wisely prune the Princess Plant
and train the sapling Queen.