My A-Z posts this year
are based on my garden – flowers, animals, the birds and the bees, butterflies -
with a bit of poetry thrown in. For some letters I am expecting to cheat
somewhat – a sort of wish they were here.
C - Chaffinch, Clematis, Cabbage White, Canterbury Bell
It’s not just for A-Z that we can say,
Oh to be in England
Now that April’s there.
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| Chaffinch |
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning unaware
That the lowest bough and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm tree hole are in tiny leaf
While the chaffinch sings on ordered bough
In England now!
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| Chaffinch |
When it comes to climbing plants not many will say they will wear purple when
they grow old . Here’s one that tries every year.
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| Clematis |
Purple and green the
clematis
Leans down my lady's mouth to kiss.
Leans down my lady's mouth to kiss.
Meanwhile:
The butterfly, a
cabbage-white
(His honesty of flight)
Will never now, it is
too late,
Master the art of
flying straight,
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| Cabbage White butterfly |
Is it him I wonder who has
changed these flowers from blue to white?
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| Canterbury Bells |
I think the
Canterbury bells are playing little tunes.
Poems:
- Oh to be in England – Robert Browning
- A Song of Clematis – Ethel Clifford
- Flying Crooked – Robert Graves
- Madonna of the Evening Flowers – Amy Lowell
