One sapphire cloud.

(read aloud as performance poem!)

Sleep as if dead

all winter ahead

under warm cosy spread

in black peaty bed

warm as new bread

by old wooden shed

no more to be said.

March, the beginning

though the soil peeping

first shoots of Spring

leaves are just sprouting

waxy with greening

glossy and shining

just happy growing.

This is the clue

flowers now blue

as the breeze blew

now here's the breakthrough

blooms just continue

covered in dew

full flowers now due.

Hyacinths proud

singing out loud

blue in a crowd

one sapphire cloud!