On downlands

The quadrille prompt at dverse this week was the word ‘up’. Just for fun I have written one using the word ‘down’.

 

On downlands,

windblown with thistledown,

that rise and fall,

drowned in an ocean of mist,

I count the steps

to a tumbledown house

where a baby awaits

with downy head,

fledgling mine own,

crowned in rainbows,

the singing of birds

and wind-downed rose petals.