Saturday, 18 January 2025

7. Gillian Swain's 'Garden Poem' for Magdalena Ball

 




Garden Poem  

 for Magdalena Ball   

                                                                                                             …today the purple

                                                                                                                                and the scarlet bells

                                                                                                                 ring in

                                                                                                            Irina Frolova, ‘Lightly’


 

­­­Caught up in tangerine

colour like persimmon

 

soft and crumpled

ornamental pomegranate

 

a false promise on these petals

all forgiven.

 

This fiery red

too delightful to mind

 

your step

soft soil after rain

 

slip and sink into this

sweaty spring.

 

All the notes in green

turn and curl

 

hang fresh, new

shadow dance

 

under the canopy

spiders sling afternoon silk.

 

Train your eye

slalom through sunset webs

 

Learn quickly.

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