delicate beauties
defended
by a century’s thorns
Before the Unfurling
petals held
tight in a fist
gathering the courage to open
Practice
mediation
on lavender and grey
fern’s delicate display
Deific
and the light
from high, so holy
graced every thing
After The Dance
the skirt ruffle lost
evidence of
fairies’ spring fling
Stegosaurus
green dinosaur
rises from the ancient earth
defying extinction
April’s Gait
out of the damp
into spring’s light
coltsfoot canters
Start
tiny specks of green
cultivating all of spring
profundity of small sensibilities
The Wind Winds Down
peeking out
the storm’s force and fury
remains in the tilted horizon
Gold Leaf
temporary thaw reveals
winter’s gilding
of last year’s oak
Haven
shelter in the rhododendron
waiting out winter
alongside flower buds
Hearing Hallelujah
crowded so tight
they seem almost one
every dot a note in the visual song
Reprieve
drinking in
the blue blue sky
brief banishment of grey
Best Effort
when flowering
is impossible
bloom your leaves
Carmine
stiletto petals
seamed like silk
timeless fashion vixen
Snow Bird
on oak
leafed wings
snow bird flew
Rainy Day Music
rain plays
on tin roofs
symphony for birds
Outlier
snow balanced on limbs
daring the wind
to draw new silhouettes
Portals
life passes through
on the way
to the great beyond
Wild Strawberries
with berries gone
leaves reminiscence
still coloring the lawn
Emerald Wall
barrier embraced
hard edges softened
by a majesty of moss
Carapace
the fern
tortoise shelled
winter’s slow approach
Home Together
place
made known
by stone and heart
Wild
herd
of birch gathers
in the zebra woods
Sides
branched
right and left
both needing the stem
Alighted
hope
is faith’s comrade
keeping us afloat
Assertion
night held tight
in the morning’s frost
while the bloom asserted day
Still
leaves newly gone
night unpacks her bags
no gloom in the glooming
Buche de Noel
mushroomed and mossed
the forrest’s
confection of perfection
The Plenty
how can I miss the flowers
when every leaf’s in bloom
fall bouquets abound on trees