Will Spring Ever Arrive? More Snow

Spring is still 17 days away with yet another winter storm coming into play

New England will be hit by more snow to the suffering residents’ dismay

Over 8 feet of snow complete with icy slick roads

Another day to stay in one’s humble abode

Will this be winter’s final last gasp?

Large parts of the nation in another snowy frigid grasp?

Computer models may the weather try to predict

But after 8 feet of snow of this white blanket most have come to be sick

With thousands of flights cancelled or delayed

Travelers’ tempers have to be extremely frayed

When the economic numbers for the first quarter are released

Will the recovery due to weather have ceased?

Shivering in their homes, schools and offices, quaking in fear at next month’s heating bill

Shaking their fist at the shadow prediction on Groundhog’s Day of Punxsutawney Phil

Even though in California we are regulated and taxed to death

Other than in the mountains it is rarely cold enough to see a frosty exhaled breath

And when it hails in Huntington as on last Monday it did

Less than a melting inch, no danger of cars slipping, losing traction into crashing skids

© March 4, 2015 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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