Purple & yellow freesias

FREESIAS

Crocuses have flown

Up to perch in rows like birds

Upon a green twig.

Yellow freesias

Sweet yellow freesias

Fill the senses with perfumed

Delicate beauty

Pansies

PANSIES

Bright-faced pansies smile

And lightly nod but their hearts

Are a dark secret.

Magnolia

MAGNOLIAS

The creamy buds

Have opened up

Spreading their petals

To the sun

Warming their hearts

And ours

Lilac

Lilac spearheads pierce the air
with their sweet pastel perfume,
burning the incense of their candles.

Poppies (second version)

     When I opened my shutters I saw

A poppy had appeared

Like life

In a burst of blood red

Bright as the sun

Blown by the wind

The red of passion

Of the heart and heat

With its dark purple-black core

Holding the seed casket of new life

Delicate translucent petals

Crumpled like crushed silk

Clinging to their spiky hirsute stem

Destined to fall

Poppies

When I opened my shutters I saw

A poppy had appeared

And it seemed to me to be life

A glorious splash of colour

Bright as the sun

Blown by the wind

The red of passion

Of the heart and heat

Of blood

With its dark purple-black core

Holding the seed casket of new life

Delicate translucent petals

Crumpled like crushed silk

Clinging to their spiky hirsute stem

Destined to fall

Written round midnight on 11 June 2011