Tuesday 5 June 2012

a minor chord



Each day the light comes a little earlier,
and slowly
spring begins to bleed through
the grey peripheries of winter.

But as green buds and shoots
bravely push their way
out of cold, dark branches,
and cherry blossoms begin to form 
pink fists of petals,
fat and full,
somewhere else
there is the pull
of a minor chord.

Winter always turns to spring,
no matter the force or depth of want,
we cannot amend or alter anything
that has gone before.


© Laura Howard 2012

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