Spring

Winter coats are packed away,
gloves are left behind.
No need for hats or woolly scarves.
Let’s see what we can find.

Soil has loosed its winter grip.
Look, bulbs and flowers push through.
Snowdrop bunches, daffodils
and primrose wait for you.

Marbled colours weave along
the waking woodland floor.
Celandine and stitchwort,
wood anemone - and more.

Violets hiding, deeply shy,
beneath a bigger bloom,
extend their loving leaves before
releasing sweet perfume.

Wild garlic clusters starburst,
white as lamb’s fleece in the wood,
their oval leaves, with pointed tips,
so tasty in our food.

Bugs and buds are waking, too,
and insects whirl and wheel.
Each pollen-dusted flower provides
some nectar for a meal.

Winter coats are packed away
and no-one needs their gloves.
So come, explore, enjoy the season
everybody loves!