Spring Buds

April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

Winter kept us warm, covering

Earth in forgetful snow, feeding

A little life with dried tubers.

Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee

With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,

And went on in sunlight

from, "the Wasteland" By TS Elliot

On this crisp ,cool April day;

Spring Buds,by me

What can i tell you

about the buds of springtime,

that they are stalwart,courageous,determined,

firm,persist ant,lionhearted,obstinate

resolute,spirited,

that they are hearty,hardy, bendable,crisp,

resilient,snappable,crackable,defiant,

that they are pliable,willowy

pliant,supple.

Birth,

Shall i say;

oracular,premonitory ,preparation for;

twisting,turning,living,breathing,breeding

growing,giving,receiving

surviving.

A bud forms at the tip

of a branch,

It must;snap,retract,recoil,emerge,whittle

forge forth

April of forty four degrees, thirty two degrees,

seventy two degrees,eighty degrees,

April of sun,rain,sleet,snow,hail

sun

April of endurance,abeyance,exuberance

patience,hope.

If not for April

summer could not follow.