08 April 2025

Heralding

 

Frost-rimed daffodils, heads drooping.

Gently waking as the early rays

stretch slowly across the garden.

The beech hedge still sports her

coppery coat, waiting yet on the

budding greenery to nudge it to the ground.


The red stalks of the dogwood burst

with burgeoning buds.

And the wind has dropped.


A bike ride, later, in the sunshine.

Rustling undergrowth. A merlin scavenges.

In the field the curlew capers, her

curved bill delving for grubs.

As the skylarks rise, unseen, to

herald the new season.

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