Spring, ripe and dulcet
usher for the vines
of mellow orchard
green leaf perch bird chime 
thaws a winter gloom
       
Bane of snowbound
cladding doused in
red sunlight rays
sea salt tides rise
                
Wild rose plot’s
vivid shades
signpost faith

A sprig
of fresh

mint

Published On Poetry Soup.

Outright winner of "Spring Diminished Hexaverse Contest"
judged third March 2021