Early April Flowers

White wood anemones,
bright-wide in the sun
sparkling sprinkled
on the woodland floor,
while bluebells prepare
their blue spring haze;

and at the roadside,
as fades the blaze
of daffodils, see gentle
lilac pools of lady’s smock,
pale smudges of primroses,
and deep cowslip yellow
among the green green grass.