The folk lore is that if ground hog doesn’t see his shadow and run back in his hole to hid that spring is just around the corner. Maybe so but I live way up north in North Country and I know, shadow or no shadow spring is still a long way off and there is a lot of wintry ice and snow and blow left to be had no matter what ground hog says. Read more…
REFLECTIONS ON GROUND HOG DAY
This year old ground hog didn’t see his shadow.
It was a gray day of sleet and snow flurries.
Next day I work up to a world of ice
and a cold fifteen degrees.
I don’t suppose it really matters
what old ground hog sees.
Truth be known, here in the north
old ground hog is still asleep
and it will still be two months or more
before we see a speck of green.
In February, you couldn’t wake him with
a jack-hammer pounding through the frozen ground.
It may even be at least mid-May
before springtime comes around
up here in the North Country
where the snow and ice pile deep.
Ground hog day has come and gone
and old ground hog is still asleep.
He didn’t even glimpse his shadow.
There was no sun for him to see.
Ground hog day was gray and cold,
just sleet and snow flurries.
Ground hog didn’t stretch or blink
or even try to raise his head.
On Ground Hog Day it was much too cold
to even think of crawling out of bed.
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