April 26 - Texas Bluebonnets

Texas Bluebonnets

Each spring in Texas
  When I was a kid my family used to go for drives
      With a picnic basket and a cooler in the trunk.
Each time we'd find
   A roadside park beside a field of bluebonnets and Indian paintbrushes,
      Like a blanket of cool red and purest cerulean blue.
Each spring and early summer
   Me grown up, kids of our own, we'd take trips that wound
      Through Texas hills blanketed in rich blue against the still green grass.
In Autumn where life's driven me
   The bluebonnets of spring are miles and months away and yet,
       If I close my eyes, in the cool of evening I can feel them still.
In Winter here no seeds
    Of bluebonnets lie beneath the snow, waiting for the spring.
       It's a comfort though to know they wait for spring in Texas soil.


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