Spring is all round
Wattles lighting up the forest
The small and fragile orchid
Peeping up from the ground cover
Wherever you go
Something new adds to your walk
Even death is beautiful
Look at the intricate, delicate,
Finely carved by erosion
Volutes of the bark on a dead trunk
Still standing proudly
This is Spring bounty
Is it rendered so
Because of the shortness of the season
When the slumbering old orchard
Suddenly bursts with flowering activity?
The almond , peach, pear trees
Compete in a showy exhibition
When the humble grey homestead drive
Is lined with the golden floral display
Amongst the soft greenery of the paddocks?
Already the lack of water is showing
And soon, too soon
The world will dry out and leach colours
The garden is touched too
With daffodils and iris
Complementing, competing each others
For the bees attention
Driving them into a feeding frenzy
In the warming days.
Lucette C. Bailliet
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