Poems From Inside Me

Green And Bright And Born Anew

Spring in Northern Climes

When springtime comes, though it’s late this year

I can venture forth outside without any fear

All of us in this northern clime feel a sense of victory

Knowing another winter has passed and summer is soon to be

I think of seeing people outside, dining, walking

Lightly clad and happily talking

All life around me born new again

And I try to paint this miracle scene with my pen

Times like this I think of being just sixteen

Neither man or boy but right in between

I had a few gorgeous females in my life

One who I would have easily wanted to be my wife

Oh how my heart beat when I saw that girl smile

I have not seen anything quite so wonderful in a long long while

And I have to admit that her best friend who I also knew

Had a beauty and body and sweetness about her too

Back then I had my job and my big blue truck

All dented up and stained with muck

I wore a brush cut in the time of big hair

I was quite a sight but I didn’t care

There were three girls I cared for who had touched my heart

But by summer time they were out of my life, it tore me apart

I spent many lonely awful days

Killing time in murderous ways

But I had so much fun in spring that year

I could move the world with a little beer

I take no booze now but I drink some things still

I drink in the beauty of green valleys and hills

Spring is a perfect time to love again

As all of us Canucks leave our hibernation den

And head for the open road below the deep blue sky

Be with our family and friends; laugh, love, and cry

Nothing makes me feel quite so new and young

Than to see the springtime just begun

I will live a year’s worth in the next few weeks

Because they say a noble heart always finds the love it seeks

Leif Gregersen

May 9, 2014