"Poem of the Week"~ Post Register Newspaper

"My joy in spring is more than

birds that sing;

And it is more than budded leaves

that start;

'Tis recollections of a former

spring —

A spring that now is lost, save

in my heart:

Small eggs of blue in orchards

white in May —

Armloads of lilacs on our

Wedding Day."

By Claudia K. Hess

Shelley, Idaho, United States

 

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