gregwa8
gregwa8
Jan 17, 2020

Scratch-Off Spring

If you like Spring, Maryland weather
is like a scratch-off lottery ticket:

your lucky penny may wipe away
the snow for one week, and a cluster
of tulips appear.

The sweltering heat of summer
be interrupted by zephyrs,
cool as Canada.

It is a poor man's delight, these anomalies
of paradise.

Another type of unearthing,
the treasure of treason
against a bitter or blistering season.

And fall is a second vernal equinox here,
the leaves as colorful as flowers,
the honeyed air full ofpleasant smells and feels.

When you can wear sweaters and sandals
at the same time.

But the real gift is the sweepstakes of surprise,
the bucolic breaks that visit
like white-winged angels

at any given time
of the year.

About This Poem

Review Request Direction: What did you think of my title?
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Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft

About the Author

Region, Country: Maryland, USA

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Comments

weirdelf

You have written it so well you could remove some of the line breaks to let the verse flow in its natural cadence.

Read this aloud-
If you like Spring, Maryland weather
is like a scratch-off lottery ticket:

your lucky penny may wipe away
the snow for one week, and a cluster
of tulips appear.

The sweltering heat of summer
be interrupted by zephyrs,
cool as Canada.

It is a poor man's delight, these anomalies
of paradise.

Another type of unearthing,
the treasure of treason
against a bitter or blistering season.

And fall is a second vernal equinox here,
the leaves as colorful as flowers,
the honeyed air full ofpleasant smells and feels.

When you can wear sweaters and sandals
at the same time.

But the real gift is the sweepstakes of surprise,
the bucolic breaks that visit
like white-winged angels

at any given time
of the year.

Wodjarekon?

IRiz

IRiz

3 years 5 months ago

hey, it has been ages since last time i visit
it is a pleasure to see you are still writing

i think you might want to add a bit more of a drama in the poem, add how you feel about it
the poem is purely descriptive

and then you used the word zephyr instead of simple wind, i would drop it

but i liked the alliterations in the middle of some stanza and a word selection over all leaves good fresh impression

good write overall

who is new here and good, tell me i will take a look.

don't be angry at my critique, i mean well