Yellow Days

By Frances Macaulay Forde

Sat, 26 Jul 2014
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Driving through Toodyay in late August

before Spring arrives officially

yellow makes me smile

 

Broome just opening

dotted with hives

flavouring the honey

and signs: ‘Beware Bees’

 

Field undulating through hills

no straight lines

sewn to follow dips

valleys and creeks

and around trees

 

Canola makes me smile

field waiting to be seeded

purple spikes take advantage

of a clear run to the sun

 

Far hills painted Ochre

as we enter another Shire

splash of blue Leschenaultia

 

Some giant brush has been busy

Soon Spring will show

its finished painting

 

England’s fields are patchworks

Here in Western Australia

we let the land and trees

decide the design

 

Frances Macaulay Forde © 2013

Certificate U
Poem
Written in Australia
Nature

Comments

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

I enjoyed your journey among the changing shades. Your spaces are much more vast than in England's farms and countryside, I think.
I looked up Leshenaultia, but it seemed to have a 'c' between the 's' and 'h', if I had the right plant.
Also wasn't sure about 'Canolla', there was a plant like rape with yellow flowers but it seemed to have only one 'l', and if so, what are the purple spikes, please?
Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Frances Macaula... on

Hi Rhiannonw, thanks so much for reading and commenting.  

You are quite right, Leschenaultia should have a 'c' and I will correct it straight away.  The gorgeous blue flowers are very distinctive and the purple spikes are of Hardenbergia, another WA Wildflower.  Canola refers to the rape seed family: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canola and again I will correct it.

I obviously rushed this straight from my notebook but that's no excuse.  Thanks again for pointing them out.

 

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