The Reason for the Seasons

Looking at summer

From the bleak landscape of winter

Is a miracle of the mind.

To look past bare branches

To remember green boughs

Takes imagination.

To sit sweating

In the August sun

And feel the cool kiss

Of January's delicate snowflakes

Depends on creative thinking.

Seeing the change of seasons

And the stark contrasts

Develops our inner artist.

The creative process

Of turning winter into summer

Brings out the poet in all of us.