First come the snowdrops and crocuses and then the yellow flowers. Daffodils and Forsythia brave the end of winter while the Magnolia buds swell with anticipation. These are a few haiku attempts around this theme:
Huddled together
the bitter winter wind
Clumping daffodils
End of winter
A pale green and yellow
Beneath bare trees
After snowdrops
So comes the daffodils
The changing lights
Winter’s journey
Snowdrops nod lazily
In a chill breeze
Biding time
The magnolia buds arrested
In a bitter snap
A gliding swan
Watching the magnolia buds
Beneath the surface
Waiting on the cusp
Of winter and spring
The point of a daffodil
Winter’s spring
Rising in no man’s land
The young daffodil
A winter’s bed
The daffodil emerges from the mud
Wrapt in pale green
Cold grey sky
Out of a long brown winter
The yellow
