Bad Poetry: April Is the Kindest Month

For the Poets & Storytellers United, an extra poem celebrating what looks like my laptop's recovery from an attack earlier this week...

(Azalea. All photos from Google; for this one Google credits https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/azalea/essential-spring-azalea-care )

"April is the kindest month. April gets you out of your head and out working in the garden."--Marty Rubin*

(Cherry blossoms: https://www.gardenia.net/genus/prunus-cherry-blossom-tree )

April is the kindest month

with all its showers and flowers:

It thaws the land, brings longer days

for tidying our bowers.

(Vinca minor: https://www.gardenia.net/guide/periwinkle-plant-care-and-growing-guide )

It's still not warm enough for real

agricultural toil;

no sweat, no blisters, no mosquitoes

garden's bliss to spoil.

(Forsythia: https://www.thetreecenter.com/lynwood-gold-forsythia/ }

It merrily skips from bloom to bloom,

warming more each day,

from daffodils through iris flowers

to rose blooms and May.

(Claytonia: Facebook)

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* Obviously this would be April on the Atlantic coasts of the US and UK. Some of the Poets & Storytellers post from India, Trinidad, Australia, and other places where April feels very different. It'll be fun to read their April poems. The next month's name is intentionally used ambiguously to include a favorite flower in England, or not, as the reader prefers.

(Dogwood: https://www.britannica.com/plant/dogwood )