SPRING: Aside from romantic love, probably nothing inspires poetry like the coming of spring.

Two local poets have shared their spring poetry as we welcome the season today.

“I’m Ready For Spring!”

By Frances Wolfe Haight of Kane

Spring is coming soon,

Did you know?

That we will be

Done with all the snow.

The flowers will grow

And show their heads,

In shades of yellow

Orange and red.

The sun will shine

The snow will be gone

Then the work begins

To mow the lawns.

The children will be out

And ready to play

And we are all ready

For that first spring day!

“Spring”

By Donald Neal of Bradford

The snows of winter have all gone,

The warm wind is blowing through the trees.

The birds have returned from their winter home,

And soon you’ll hear the buzzing of the bees

The rains will wash our precious earth,

And the flowers will bloom once again.

The trees will don their coat of green,

It is time for the planting to begin.

Our land will again be filled with beauty,

For everyone to behold.

Winter has become a memory,

No more ice or snow or cold.

The sun brings warmth throughout the land,

The farmer starts plowing his field.

This is the start of the growing season,

For the crops this land will yield.

It is time to get out the mower and the rake,

And put the snowblower away.

The sky has turned to a beautiful blue,

No more ugly clouds of gray.

It seems we have waited for so long,

For spring to come to our land.

Now we have a lot of things to do,

During winter what we had planned.

We need to be thankful for our seasons,

And the changes they may bring.

But the one season we like best of all,

Is that season we call spring.

NEIGHBORS: As Clayton Vecellio of Lewis Run tells us, today is Won’t You Be My Neighbor Day, in honor of the late children’s television host Fred Rogers, who was born this day in 1928.

“Neighbors everywhere are encouraged to wear a favorite sweater and promote neighborliness in their neighborhood,” stated a clipping Clayton shared on the day.