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Spring Snow

Tyrant Winter reaches
Beyond its frozen tomb,
Dares cast its icy mantle
On bud and crocus-bloom.

Long it reigned unchallenged
In dark and cold and ice;
Thwarted now, it hurls back
Last volleys as it flies.

Spent, it fails to muster
Its once-destroying blast;
Failing snows fall gently,
Not to chill or last.

Lazily they flutter
In heavy, half-mild air,
Listless, almost hopeful
To dissolve soon there.

Winter’s once-dread arrows
Waft softly, twirl with glee,
Weakened by Spring’s onslaught
To pleasant mockery.

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Adam Sedia (b. 1984) lives in his native Northwest Indiana and practices law as a civil and appellate litigator. He has published four books of poetry and his poems, essays, and fiction have appeared in various literary journals. He is also a composer, and his musical works may be heard on his YouTube channel.

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3 Responses

  1. Margaret Coats

    “Failing snows fall gently” is a lovely line to undercut forceful words in your battle song, Adam. Winter’s retreating volleys and arrows can’t muster much against Spring’s onslaught. With the “once-destroying blast” reduced to “pleasant mockery,” a light trimeter is apropos. Line by line, the rhythm is complex, usually trochaic in odd-numbered lines, iambic in even-numbered, but with substitutions. Spring snow itself may be lazy and listless, but you show most attentive care in creating this piece.

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  2. Roy Eugene Peterson

    I enjoyed this well-rhymed poem on the changing of seasons and the personification in a sense of winter’s last feeble flurries while surrendering to that which is to come.

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  3. Paul A. Freeman

    Tyrant winter. Love it. And you extended the image all the way to the end of a fine poem without falter, to an ending of optimism.

    I read this yesterday in the wrong mood. I’m so glad I came back to it.

    Thanks for the read, Adam.

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