By Dick Collins:

Spring is a flirt in a flowered gown
Kind of girl I would take to town
For an evening date at a dance or a show
And kiss a little and let her go.

Fall is a friend with warm brown eyes
Kind of a girl who would sympathize
With all my cares and understand
And only expext me to hold her hand.

Winter is wise and strong and free
Kind of girl I would take with me
On a skiing trip to a high white hill
Where I could bask in her greater skill.

But blue eyed summer is the girl I prize
She’s sweet and trusting and not too wise
And if she’s the wife I think she’ll be
Then I can go out with the other three!

Cheryl Taylor, Huntsville, ON, submitted this poem on behalf of her late father, Richard (Dick) Collins, who loved poetry and could remember and recite them until his passing at 90 in 2010.