Pandemic Spring

And spring arrived!

Not roaring like a lion

nor gentle like a lamb.

Yet it arrived

and with it persisted the darkness

borne on the year before.

 

But still, could be heard 

birdsong, and the busyness of bees.

The leaves on the trees

refused to stay

tight in their buds;

and everywhere, shoots

pushed their way

through he warming earth.

(April 2020)