For over ten years America has been fed a steady dietof green movement rhetoric. From a personal standpointI fully agree that we need to look at conserving ournatural resources and we need to do what is needed tokeep the world clean and alive for generations to come. Ialso believe that we do not need to make changein a knee jerk …

Ahhh … spring.It has sprung.Spring. The poets’ muse for centuries. It has inspiredsuch masterpieces as Emily Dickinson’s “A Light Existsin Spring,” William Wadsworth’s “Daffodils”and A.E. Houseman’s “Loveliest of Trees.”Spring. Nature lovers revel in its aspects, andwordsmiths turn their observations into lyricalworks of art.Today, I want to lay the foundation of a poem– to provide the building blocks, so to speak …