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Maulden Woods

 

Bright light sharp focus intense

skies, birds calling all around

Hiding in their green drapes yellow

splashes edge the rides and catkins

shine against blue skies while golden moss

climbs around Ash and Willow to reach

Gold Crests, minute and squeaking

quietly high above.

 

Beside the ride ditches full reflect the forest

Jewels and fringed by hanging sedge,

sharp and resolute, stiff and everywhere.

Tinged with green, Hawthorn , buds of pink

Cherry Plum holds for that next warm day

to burst forth the Messiahs of Spring.

It fills your heart with a joy that lifts

a dimmed heart and mind from Winter

sadness ,that imagined yellow fluttering

of Brimstone and dark Admirals where Bryony

creep and cream flowers cling as Honeysuckle

entices pollinators to one's mind eye.

 

Today is calm and flooded by a technicolour

that dims and shines as puffy cumulus

briefly shades the scene.

Underfoot greyed, dried leaves of Oak mingle mud

while hopping to blossom Blue Tits

anxiously call and pronounce their domain claims

and search for sustenance as I wondered to the

presence of hope only limited by

the expectations of three score and ten.

 

14/3/2023

A walk in Maulden Woods after collecting the Longworth

Trap from Daniel at the GST WWC

 

Done