A Walk in the Garden on Christmas Day
written by: Kim M. Russell
@kim88110
Since autumn, songbirds no longer sing
at dawn or dusk, no serenading.
Exhausted now, the garden is still,
and we must wait for spring and daffodils.
Freshly fallen snow yields beneath our feet,
trees and shrubs stoop low in defeat,
trailing frozen bindweed tinsel from their boughs,
and late flowers bloom as crystal baubles now,
adorned with snowflakes from a recent fall.
There is no colour here at all,
excepting holly berries, red as wine,
and a little green where ivy intertwines.
A swathe of ice along the garden path,
a trip, a fall, an awkward blush – a laugh
takes us back to the safety of the hearth,
mulled wine, mince pies and yuletide mirth.
Kim M. Russell has been writing since she was a schoolgirl but only started posting and submitting to competitions and anthologies when she retired from teaching in 2014. She posts mainly poetry on her WordPress blog, writing in north norfolk, and is a host of the international website dVerse Poets Pub. Her poems have been published on-line on Visual Verse, Carpe Diem and Pure Haiku, as well as in the following printed anthologies: Poetry Rivals and Love's Labyrinth (Forward Press), Afflatus Magazine, River Writes (Bure Navigation Conservation Trust), the Emma Press Anthology of Aunts and the Peeking Cat Anthology 2017, as well as a piece of flash fiction in Flash, I love you!, published by Paper Swans Press.
Latest posts by Kim M. Russell (see all)
- A Walk in the Garden on Christmas Day - December 25, 2023
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