Love Poem: Meadow Love
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Written by: Caren Krutsinger

Meadow Love

Discover
meadow love
laughing in my face

lovely
Queen Anne's Lace
smiles at me

Wild strawberry
is renegade

undiscovered
left by Indians
iris and rose bush

the white tail deer
blue jays and red cardinals
ready hawks
anticipating

raccoon
opossum and beaver
squirrels nests
high in tree

sweet clover for hare
oak's moss carpet
spring lovely

endearing waft
lilac aroma
season shifts to summer

heat wave
temperatures in the hundreds
ground dries up quickly

much praying
for gentle rain
saving herself until spring