Sees buds burst open into flower
Daisies stride forth on our lawns
And yellow jasmine paths adorns.
Beetles smart in shiny coats
Brave the cold, inspiring poets:
Shakespeare, Chaucer, Burns and Keats
Rising sap makes blossoms sweet...
We stay in lock-down - but outside
Nature, dressed up as a bride,
Scatters petals on the ground
This is a wedding in the round!
Catkins frame her noble face
Magnolia perfume lends her grace
Ushered in with warbler cries
Her canopy - deep velvet skies.
No rain falls on her parade
Solomon* put in the shade
One more week, then Lent is over
Soon – the sight of four-leaved clover!
(c) Poet in the woods 2020
* St. Matthew's Gospel: Chapter 6, verse 28 ...
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