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Poem by Joyce M. Coomer: March flowers tell tales

This little group of March flowers has been in bloom since the first week of February, something very unusual for my March flowers as they usually bloom two weeks later than everyone else's.

March flowers tell tales
Of long-ago homes
Houses whose mistresses
Cherished these harbingers of Spring
Glowing yellow amid leaves
Grayed by winter
Planted between yard and road
In lieu of a fence
Houses are gone
March flowers remain
Strewn down grader ditches
Multiplied and spread
Wave in the breezes
To travelers passing by
Some, as yet undisturbed,
Mark width of steps
Leading to a house
Whose untimely destruction
Grieved many souls

The poem above was inspired by March flowers I noticed in the yard of a good, livable house that was torn down for no good reason that I could see . . . -Joyce M. Coomer Joyce M. Coomer




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