Spring flowers

It’s spring flower time. Photos taken over the last fortnight.

The blackthorn was the first to blossom.

The daffodils have been in flower for a couple of weeks now.

and the celandine

This monumental stack of blue flower isn’t ceanothus but rosemary.

The shade beneath the hedges is full of violets

and the meadow is an ocean of deep blue muscari

Spring fire

A spring poem for dverse, rather loosely based on this picture.

Beneath the sun,

the silver moon,

daffodils sweep the crumbling loam

and leaf mould dark.

Buds burst and blossom falls,

blown in gusty gales,

and hares, ear-twitching

leap the meadow grass

in praise of some dark king,

some primal urge

that paints the walls of spring

with godless fire.