SIMPLE PLEASURES

 

One of my greatest pleasures is a well-kept garden

Whether a cottage garden with its simplicity

Or paths and planting laid out with symmetry

Or the parterre with its ornamental formality

MARBLED SKIES

 

Marbled skies of broken cloud

Coloured with blues and greys

In the frosty air of winters bite

The marbled skies of winter days

THE MELTING SUN

 

The last deep orange glow

Of the setting sun

Slipped beyond the horizon

Like it was melted

By its own heat

Sending the world into the darkness

Of the fast approaching night

DELPHINIUM

 

Delphinium, The dolphin flower

From Delphis, The Greek for Dolphin

With bottle shaped blooms like a dolphins nose

The golden Buttercup is its Cousin

More humbly known as Larkspur

Gracing the meadowland they’re found in

BOUNTY

 

Carrots and Swedes,

Fruits and Berries,

Potatoes and Grasses,

Beans and Peas,

Nuts and seeds,

Growing all around,

Mother nature’s bounty,

Planted in the ground

WOODLAND COURTING

 

Birds are singing high up in the sycamore

Squirrels busy themselves in the chestnut.

Trees sway in the breeze

Limbs out stretched towards the sun

As in the dampled sunlight,

We walk hand in hand below

Slowly wandering the wood

Through shadows and the sunshine

The humming wings of insects

Our only company

In the shade the spiders silk spun web
Awaits its unsuspecting pray

While I am caught in a different web

On a perfect afternoon

That I wish will last forever

STAR-CROSSED WALKERS

 

A star-crossed couple in the park,

Walking hand in hand in the dark

They don’t care about wind and snow

They have a love to keep them aglow