Day 494 of the daily new poems.   Our poet Mary Walsh wonders at an Earth renewed.  Spring sonnet Now the garden comes to life in bloomsprouting, burgeoning life springs green and newwith the promise of colour breaking throughfilling up the senses as it grewThese tender plants are nurtured from the gloomof winter’s darkness into spring anewand summer… Continue reading

Our poet Chrys Salt brings a blissful image of sudden pink blossom in the street on a sunny morning in Spring.  It is Day 493 of the daily new poems.   Spring The street is sudden pink blossom; the pavement a hopscotch of sun  that glitters and skitters downrailings and dances on bumper and pramin a street of sudden pink… Continue reading

Day 492 of the daily new poems, and our poet Jenna Plewes is in the freefall of Spring … Freefall                                                 There are no boundaries here, nothingto hold on to.Along cracked, bleached paths pockedwith broken flintswe… Continue reading

Day 491 of the daily new poems.  William Wordsworth was born on this day 7 April, in 1770.  Wordsworth’s best known poem is ‘Daffodils’, and our poet Lynn White brings us a poem of Spring first published in Cosmic Daffodil. Pussy Willow I’m looking at them nowthe fluffy flowerscontrasting cream againstthe blue of the skypussy-willowin all its glory,alive with beesstanding… Continue reading

Our poet translator Timothy Adès, on Day 490 of the daily new poems, brings us a Spring piece by Mexican writer Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959).  Spring by Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959)translated from Spanish by Timothy Adès  Cul-de-sac breezesmesh at street-corners.            Spring. Still on my eyelash,fleck of a seed-grain.            Spring. Wall-hopper climbing,lizard retreating.            Spring. Cat, all day, stalkingcountless small creatures.            Spring. Round your eyes,… Continue reading