APRIL
What lies down waiting,
trapped below a winter’s yoke,
is ever restlessly longing
for the scent of a new stage.
Fragile, yet equally bold,
it’s creeping as burgeoning green
through the cold layers of frost
from the shelter of the lower slopes.
What wakes becomes growth,
like nimble silver willows
with pollen of golden-yellow.
Freed from the biting cold,
it merrily blows through the air:
belonging to a free world.









