Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Day 22: Pastoral Poem

 
 cosmos flower

Oh the pastoral, or nature poem as it is better known today. A poet's prerogative! I'm so inspired right now from all things spring that I have a bouquet of pastoral poems to offer today. 



Cosmos

Just two syllables 
and you have a garden universe 
of tutti-frutti colour,
frilly-headed
wonder,

knee-deep
in soul-speak. 
Pink smiles
with yellow eyes
under a blue sky
unwavering, 
wild,

affably bestow 
beauty's code:
joy,
in love and life,
joy! 
infinite
and untold.



***
 
Budding

Like new buds on trees
happiness comes 
as a sudden burst of green. 
Lime tufts coiled in prayer-praise
tickled by growth
laugh loud in felicitous glee.
Leaves are a kind of love.
Bloom is a hope watered
and sunned with smiles.
Happiness, an innate aptitude
for sky.


***

Spring Sunset

This April evening sun 
is a tangerine
squeezed on the horizon. 

Tomorrow there will be zest
and zing. Citrus-flavoured
new day wonder. 


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