Fields of dancing yellow dandelions

Spring in St. Paul, MN, photo by VB

Recent events this May moved me to try my hand at poetry:

Mayday 2011

by Virginia Bergman

The world has changed since last we met;

Mayday came and went;

And we scarcely noticed;

For it was cold here in the northland;

When we learned of bin Laden’s death;

And thought of other deaths since 9/11;

And yet in this present moment;

Life persists with new green everywhere,

And fields of dancing yellow dandelions.

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