SPRING POLLEN IN BLOOM...

I wandered lonely with my dog
 
Through the morning's chill and fog

When all at once up in the trees

I saw the buds that make me sneeze.

I realized it was my duty

To look past that and see the beauty.

 ---Rose Moore 2013
(with apologies to William Wordsworth's poem, "Daffodils")


And then next day, the sun was out,
And of that beauty I had no doubt.
          ---R.A.T. (Rose About Town)