Spring Dreaming

Sitting in cold sunshine
Looking up at white and grey
As empty limbs sway in icy wind
Here and there a touch of blue hope
As shadows add contrast to bright winter
And the odd bird flutters by in need to feed
So much grey waits to spread its gloom
As leaves rustle on defiant rhododendrons
In yet another dizzy turn
of orbit season swing

Reviews

[Ed Hart]

hold out a while longer...Spring's hurrying, hurrying...just the thought of it smiles my face and gets my old bones ready to leap...

[Sel Whiteley]

This is a wonderful poem that really captures the very beginning of Spring. The last seven lines especially are so vivid, I adore the use of colour: 'blue hope', 'bright winter' (that really shows the light reflecting against frozen surfaces: ice light). The inner rhyme 'need to feed' and then that use of flowers. I simply adore 'defiant rhododendrons.