Zeitgeisten
Crisp light with sharp-edged shade
Starkly contrasted;
Pale sunshine by enveloped
Cloud-glooms blasted;
Storm-winds and wintry showers
Blent together;
Bare trees exposed to torments
Of rough weather;
Flash-floods and frost-foam
Icily combined
In filaments, by windy
Chisels fined;
Soft snow, hard hail and moody
Mistiness
Squeezed out by bitter
Atmosphere’s cold press;
Tempest-tossed birds blown
Wildly far and wide;
Cowering creatures that
In deep dens hide:
All these prefigure Spring’s
Fresh generosity
And luscious Summer’s mellower
Maturity,
That blindly do their best
To find and grope
Whatever there may be
Of future hope.
