The Colour of Spring

What is the colour of Spring? Is it white? The snowdrop dresses in virginal purity, Yet flirts with her skirts frilled with green, And snow falls in March, Spring’s first month.

What is the colour of Spring? Could it be blue? That peeking patch between lumbering grey clouds; ‘Enough to make a sailor a pair of trousers’; The old-fashioned phrase comes to mind. Bells swing blue on the dance floor of the wood And a carpet of colour caresses the eye.

What is the colour of Spring? Can it be green? Yes, surely green must be the colour, Tips and shoots pressing up green from the earth: Buds straining bulbous from the bark of the branch, Still hiding inside their overcoats of green.

Yet there is a Science Park in our village, Where dwell strange smelling chemicals, Experiments and counting machines. But outside the wall, beside the path, Melbourn shows us her natural colour of Spring; It is yellow, a nodding and smiling yellow, As daffodils wave and dance in the Wordsworth way. A yellow melody their trumpet brings. I see them. I hear them. My heart sings. Yvonne Chamberlain

Chris Thomas

Cambridge Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning

Carpet and upholstery cleaner based in Cambridge. Working in and around Cambridge, Royston, Saffron Walden, Newmarket and Huntingdon.

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