winter wind
wet & heavy
with hail
heavier
than last winter
pushing our fence
pelting our car
& shaking
a ladybird
out of its slumber
with hail
heavier
than last winter
pushing our fence
pelting our car
& shaking
a ladybird
out of its slumber
This poem is copyright (©) Michael Buckingham Gray 2024
About the Writer
Michael Buckingham Gray
Michael is a poet, writer and creative writing tutor. His children's poems recently appeared in Australian Children's Poetry and Right Way Down and Other Poems (Fremantle Press). Other poems he has written have also appeared in Catchment – Poetry of Place, The Ecological Citizen and Frogpond.