Summer in May
After days of grey, white skies
colourless, rain on the panes
dispiriting
what joy instead for the orange and red
poppies in splashes, grow where they will
for the blue in pots in troughs in tubs
and all of the sky, the distant hills
for pinks and purples, peaches
roses in riot, sun after rain
birdsong and bees
west wind in the trees.
There’s colour and movement and song in the dance
kaléidoscope tumbles, patterns by chance
and after the colourless rainy grey
hurrah for the miracle come today
for the joy and the hope now there’s summer in May.
May 21sr 2020 Hounoux
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