The Inkwell
#Garden #Animals
As fresh green grass
shoots up through hardened soil
winged squadrons
practice their manoeuvres
carefully
Nose diving into bird baths
splashing in the rainwater
searching out seeds
or occasional
Earthworm
with all this fun
caution – is in the air
those wing commanders better beware
for the resident puddytat
is watching – with a knowing stare!
#Fowc #Cluster
Coming to life from beneath the ground
leaves hiding a burst of colour
until its time for the flowers to
say “Hello!” to the bright morning sky. keeping
together for their own protection
each individual flower adding their own bit of
radiant colour to the garden
#robin #birds #christmas #garden #tree
Residing on a garden fence
by a lawn of grass and snow
he sits there with a festive hello
looking down below
He’s feasting on a pre-Christmas lunch
a bar of fat and seed
its got all of those vital things
that in winter, a bird does need
And while the mums and dads are out shopping
he’ll hop and skip with glee
up and about the evergreen branches
on the outside Christmas tree
#christmas #girl #gardening #holly
Here’s a girl you see every christmas tide
often seen picking the prickly evergreen
like her life depended on it
later she’ll be putting it carefully around the
yearly table decorations – making the candles look pretty
They’re off on a journey
Travelling by air
Through skies of blue
The destination – yet unknown
That depends on the breeze they chase
The arrival time – when the wind drops
Then they’ll take a siesta, in
The nearest spot of soil
Till time awakens them all and
Their new flowers appear
They may be called “Weeds” but
There’s more to these wildflowers
They’re Bright yellow Dandelions – watch them roar!
#writephoto #nature #plants #poison
Poisonous Plants – Image by KL Caley
Positioned where they are in the garden,
perhaps its best leaving them where they are…
pretty colours often a sign to the
present wildlife – to stay away,
of course – the pesky bees and wasps are welcome
pollen needs to be spread – so they grow again next time
precaution needs to be made of course
pretty colours often contain some kind of deterrent
pepper red – a message to canine, feline and human alike
please! don’t eat me….
#fruit #tree #pie #San-San
Growing against the stone tudor wall
hanging fruit ripens for the pie
coming from the tree but once a season
the fruit answers the cooks call
as over the garden young birds do fly
could this be why its baked with haste
there could be no other plausible reason
to deprive the feathered friends a taste
#octpowrimo
Ready to deliver their cargo
as they hurtle towards the ground
in time they’ll group together
negotiating past terracotta rooftiles
duck egg coloured limestone paving and
run offs leading to the canal
of course – where they want to be is where
posies, poppies, and purple violets
sit around the garden lawn
#birds #summer
He landed last night
having visited someplace sunny
having spotted the green and blues and pinks
he decided to stay around for a while
The locals were friendly
advising on spots over the fence
where for a little bit of effort
you could get a really good feed
You could find a spa up and down the road
bird baths a plenty in this town
and lots of alternate accommodation
if the lodgings were too tight
With new friends met, and food in mounds
our friend’s decided to stick around
and the others think he’s not a guest
he’s family – living in his own new nest….
#cyw #wildstrawberry
You couldn’t call them cultivated – or even cultured
growing wild among the grasses
berries as sweet as their cultured cousins
but grown up in the wind and the rain
out in the meadows and forests
no polytunnels here
but just as red and just as tasty,
with a dollop of cream
The Inkwell