Spring
Springs
Sprang
Sprung
Unexpectedly
In the midst of February
In the midst of winter
Joy
Spreads
Spread
Spread
Fully
Burst into colours
Bathed in sunshine
Panic
Begins
Began
Begun
At the realisation
Of what man
Had done
Spring
Music spills out of car windows
Open
The first warm morning
Spring
Blossoms
Spring buds
Foreshadowing colour explosions
Blooms
Smells
Colours
Soft
Gentle
Sweet
Happy
Pink
Purple
Red
Yellow
A living mantra
Hundreds of haikus
In one blossom
Silky
Velvet
White
Lilac
Opaque Venes
Transparent Pedals
Pure joy
So simple
A song
A poem
Each per blossom
Smooth satins
Dotted amongst
Rough bark
Pastels
Spread across
Browns and greys
The gentle happiness of inner peace
Winning over sharp edges of demons
Every spring anew
Light bursts into life
With so much joy
The Blackbird and the Hazel
The blackbird and the hazel
A love affair each spring
One morning you will wake me
Your mating song you sing
And I will open windows
And take in deep slow breaths
I will feel the earth awakening
While you will build your nest
And all this will be centred
Around my hazel tree
Underneath my bedroom window
Oh how much I miss thee
Kingfisher and Rain
May in Scotland
A lightning bold
Metallic blue
Dipped out of the canal
Into the trees
Flashes of blue
A bobbing jewel
Follows us
Along the water
A heavy scent, mixture of
Hawthorne, Bluebells, Lilac
Tangible, weights me down
Dash: the blue lighting bold
Emerges from the water
Stickleback in his beak
The successful hunter
Manages to hide amongst the trees
Before the downpour
We not
I stretch my arms to the sky
And laugh
Warm water rinses the heavy scent away
Replacing it with pertrichor
May in Scotland
Bluebells
The silent sound of bluebells
Echoes in my nose
A fragrance no perfume could ever match
The smell of spring
