Climate, Strange

Climate, Strange

Can you remember when the daffodils

Meant spring was on the way?  Each yellow drift

Beside the bank or just beneath the hill’s

Slope gave the eye and soul a gold bright lift.

That doesn’t happen now.  We remember

How promise of revival made us new

Inside.  This time they came in December.

That can’t be right.  No.  Something is askew

When Christmas trees and red and tinselled lights

Are arrogated by the blossoms meant

To herald resurrection.  They are blights

Somehow, or at least trumpets of dissent.

..They’re out of joint with the season.

,,,,They seem a petaled noise of treason.