Rita Budrionis’ poem Klondike Margarita was published here in November 2010. The month poems that appear here from time to tome, were written by the Albright Poets in response to prompts. Would you like to see them gathered together in one place? That idea is under consideration.
O April
By Rita Budrionis
O April, you gossamer girl
In tempestuous toile
You think much of yourself
Bearing no substance at all
Tips of green growth
Burgeoning round peeping thru
Chrysalis and caterpillar
Not yet mature
Faint shadow of allure
O April, you promise things to come
But you just tease,
you in-between month
Flimsy flirty substanceless thing
Not quite winter
Barely spring
Sibling months scorn your fraud
No achievement to laud
Not May with memorials
Ides of March
Nor January’s roar
April starts her reign with a joke
But no more than temptation
No substance
Only promises fulfilled
By her more robust sisters
April hoists skirts with pale rainbow tints
Higher past delicate calves in rose prints
Gilded green peeks through
Here’s her secret
Her joy
Look closely
she says
Make your jokes make your jests
Golden script on her garter
In elegant proclamation
I am April
I love your O April poem, Rita. Unlike April, it has substance! And humor and more. You ‘nailed’ April. I wrote an O April poem last year or year before about doves and the trouble April caused them. I’m sure it’s in archives. Thanks for “exposing” April!
A delight from toille to garter!
Rita, this was an excellent poem. I’m happy to see you here.
O Rita!
Poet of sumptuous word
substance and worth
your work promises much
delivers more
gives us humor
warmth and depth.
Write on dear Poet.
Right on!