azaleas
fading - the remains
of a rainbow

for half an hour
a magpie dismembers
a sparrow

in the east wind
falling petals - flakes
of white ice

still pond ripples

inside the enclosed garden -

my secret retreat

at our first

floor window – the tree

we planted

to remember Michael

is blooming now

in the empty
summer garden the trees
ring out the changes

see the definition for 'ring out the changes' here

scavaging ravens
like torn black rags -
scattered by the wind

wind swept -
the trees are beckoning us
into the sky

red roses
tethered to an anchor
of thorns

first roses
a glossy red clot
nodding in the breeze

Photo Red Rose by cheesy42

azalea snakes
its way through the garden
sheds its skin of light

around the dead tree -
a pool of blue bells

guardians
of the still pond -
mallard and mandarin

Photo Mandarin Duck by paulafunnell

this Easter - azaleas
sun drenched – there are
a million ways to love

Details of an Arts Weekend in New Malden, Greater London, Surrey

azaleas still
unfolding the colour of
turmeric and saffron

Photo Azaleas Richmond Park by Sibisson

azaleas –
God's toy of colour
plays with red

azaleas
a rainbow laid flat
upon the earth

azaleas cloaked
in fleeting summer robes -
maroon and indigo

Building A Temple of Colour

April at
the still pond - each day
slowly
asaleas are building
their temple of colour

Photograph Isabella Plantation by Fred Dawson

azalea sleeps
in its bed of green -
wakes to magenta

Photo Magenta Azalea by Olaf