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Country Childhood

Waist high, windblown snowdrifts

Sloping, snow covered fields

Lopsided snowmen wearing woolly hats

To wake at dawn and hear the slipping

And sliding of loosening snow

Peep at the sky, the colour of a flock of seagulls

The thaw had begun.

Blossom-like confetti, sprinkled magically

Spring has arrived

Bicycle rides, peering over hedges into buttercup-filled fields

A penc...

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growing up in the countryside

Fibonacci on the last school run

A spider's chandelier with Gatsbyesque enticement

indulges the mumbling aphid's lament,

red berries decorate the fringe of a melodic carousel of swallows

whilst two more riders swirl their eyes and caw.

This was just the mornings...

 

On evenings we saw raves-

black v's in tye-dye skies,

a ginger stoat did the caterpillar,

frozen ozone refracts a mobile of rainbows.

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