88. Al-Ghani – A Garden

Suggests garden, free, generous --- 'And
azuring-over greybell makes wood banks and
brakes wash wet like lakes bluebells’ Hopkins

God said to Peter
‘To walk on lakes, you’ll
need my water – and to catch
our fish, go fishing!’

Bluebells in Cumbria

The last day of April can be cruel,

lush-early the bluebells are fading.

Spring’s fervent these days but little flags

stand and wave in the wind, their last stand.

Can you tinkle the river,

can you timbre a blackbird,

can you stock-still a shiver,

will your bell soon be heard?

Hot – as if in Summer,

a field of bluebells shimmers

- this has been their time –

and together they have competed and won

for bee and butterfly, spider, the sun

warmed up their faces - bowed out - by the moon.