A Summer's Day

A day as special as a summer’s day

Comes not in winter cold or in spring rain

Not in autumn’s color or chill sun ray

But bursts full formed from deep where it has lain

Colors yellow orange red blue gleam bright

Strangers in the winter gray, long not seen

Hidden by cold bleak day and long dark night

Summer’s day lingers in shadows of has-been

Buried beneath the snow’s silent restraint

Not stifled by the frozen hand of life

But struggles upward coaxed forth by warmth, faint

Soon strong unstoppable warm ends the strife

Erupting with sounds and smells of promise

A summer’s day shouts forth with joy and bliss