Date:         Thu, 1 Apr 1999 20:22:21 EST
From: "Barbara J. Harris" <BarbHare@AOL.COM>
Subject:      [WRITERS] SUB: Contest: RPoem/The Feeling of Spring

Here's an entry for the Renaissance Poem category.  Please do not critique
contest submissions on list, but send critiques to BarbHare@aol.com, and I
will forward to the author... thankyou!

The Feeling of Spring

March has faded into April.
The new spring air
wakens something in my being.
my soul rejoices,
My weary eyes hava a new way of seeing.

The vernal flowers come alive.
I see the world
in a pure and special way.
my once frozen mind now races,
It's a new and wonderous day.