Fairy:
Trip, splash
The celandine
A radiant flash
A widening sequin.
Skip, pour
A dazzling shower
Bottled sunshine
Painting with flowers.
Flick, hold
The centre of gold
Globe in beauty
Shine like sunlight.
Flip, pelt,
Explode to my spell
Spreading the valley
With bountiful yellow.
The ground is parched, flowers sparse,
celandine’s only growing
near the stream. There is no grass
on the green but still they’re mowing
the same old tortured track ways.
Someone killed a daffodil
and spread it’s butchered limbs across
the valley. The trees might not fight
back but the winds will undo
our Baconian mechanics.
I was told by an ancient god
this world met it’s end in 2012.
When no-one noticed he only
laughed a little bit- whilst worlds
are always changing people don’t.
* This poem was inspired by a line shared by Coll on the Druid Network Members’ site: ‘Genius is but a robin’s song at the beginning of a slow spring.’ – Kahlil Gibran
From Peneverdant 