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