Bluebells and crocuses
New starts and rainbows
Daffodils shimmer and shine in the breeze
Tulips flourish to bewitch and dazzle
Growing spreading warming light
Day by day becomes more bright
Wonderful change we all can share
Beautiful bird song fills the air
Opportunities stretch before our eyes
The year opens up to unexpected highs
New birth, new life and wondrous dreams
Suddenly we have the means
To be who we really want to be
This year is enchanted, you will see
Cherry blossom blooms in all its splendour
Inspiring awe and stunning grace and wonder
To witness flowering magnolia unfurled
Is to believe in magic in this stunning natural world.
© Peter Devonald
Picture 11673879, watercolour illustration by Elisabeth Foster, 1987, image copyright Mary Evans / Medici
Peter Devonald is a multi-award-winning scriptwriter, poet and novelist based in Manchester. Winner of the Waltham Forest Poetry Competition 2022, FofHCS Poetry Award 2023 and Heart of the Heatons Poetry Competition 2021. Poet in residence at Haus-A-Rest and published in 10 issues. Poems published in Artists Responding To, ArtLove02, Breakdown Bolton, Dear Politicians: Ecopoetry, Dirigible Balloon, Dwell Time, Forget-Me-Not Press, Greenhouse, London Grip, Purposeful Mayo, RIVISTA, Shallot, Sixpence Society, Spoonie, Suburban Witchcraft, the6ress and The Unconventional Courier. Poems featured in five group gallery shows including PaintingWriting presents Tender Stems, Chronically Online Culturable Layered Onion and Hodge Podge. Showcased in The Poetic Map of Reading. Regular columnist for Culture/Arts. Has published poems and runs monthly poetry challenges in Heaton Post, Cheadle Post, Didsbury Post and Chorlton Post. His films have appeared in 150+ festivals and won 50+ awards. Senior writer for Children’s BAFTA nominated series and formerly senior judge/mentor for The Sir Peter Ustinov Awards (iemmys).