February… spring is almost in sight. So… flowers. Here’s Wendy Cope:
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=5679
and here’s Selima Hill with a poem apparently about flowers:
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=16653
and Mimi Khalvati
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=5138
Interesting that women seem to have cornered the market in poems written about flowers.
Oooo, flowers…now let me think….my snowdrops are putting on a brave face, there’s a clump of primulas squatting defiant and yellow in the sodden soil, been there all winter, waving their ‘we shall overcome’ banner, in honour of Pete Seger…