By: Jim Bates

Mourning Dove cooing
Sweet sure sign of early spring
Calming to the soul.

Briskly blowing wind
Waves lapping along the shore
Special serenade.

Bitter blowing wind
Ice and snow pelting windows
Spring stepping backward.

First day of April
Light fluffy snowflakes falling
Such a fickle spring.

Cold blustery lake
Two loons swimming and diving
Happily at home.

Bright springtime sunshine
Warming deep the frozen ground
Land coming alive.