Spring Love Affairs

Although the calendar tells us springtime begins in late March, some people think spring begins in late April; because in regions where four seasons occur, spring weather normally settles in and is mild to warm then.   But with the way Climate Change has been affecting the weather, causing winter to hang around much longer than we’d like, no one knows when spring will really arrive this year. 

Whenever spring does arrive and settle in, however, many people's thoughts will turn to romance or perhaps to a love affair.  The love affair could be with a favorite place or it could be with a person, or it could be with both simultaneously.  One’s thoughts might even turn to an ended affair and how wonderful it was while it lasted.

As most people know, a love affair with a favorite city is described in the song “April in Paris.”

An affair with a beautiful person in a beautiful city is considered in the poem April in Paris; which is included in the poetry book, The Sound of Dreams Remembered and also in Something about the Blues.  Both books are by African American novelist, essayist, and poet Al Young. 

An ended love affair is described in the song, “I’ll Remember April,” as the songwriter conveys the beauty of April and the loveliness of the affair he experienced during that month.  The writer also speaks of his contentment and about his gratefulness for having had the affair at all.