The morning walk takes us
to an otherworldly place
where winter aconites grow
and butter the park like toast.
They fill the air with a spring glow,
Persephone’s annual boast,
a fanfare to the sea swell,
the burgeoning tsunami yellow
of crocuses and daffodils.
Kim M. Russell, 10th February 2020
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My response to dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille: Filling the Page
De, our host this week, asks us to get our fill of quadrilles.
writing in north norfolk 
What the what?! THIS line:
“where winter aconites grow
and butter the park like toast.”
FANTASTIC. And then that tsunami! So good, Kim.
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I think this year I look more forward than ever to such color explosions. Love how you describe the colors of spring.
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Thank you, Bjorn!
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I can hardly wait for the daffodils to start blooming. We always seem to be behind in the blooming of things and spring to be so far south. I love the thoughts of the aconites spreading and covering the ground like butter on toast. Gorgeous.
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Thank you, Toni!
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A delicious slice of Spring, looking forward beyond winter’s tale of dun and gray and bareness.
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Thanks Glenn.
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What a tasty piece of toast I’d love to lay on. The very idea brings joy to my mind, to lie in such glow.
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Thank you, Jade!
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Persephone has been busy 🙂
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Not busy enough in our garden. The only flowers that have braved Storm Ciara are snowdrops – and then we were treated to sleet and snow yesterday!
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They had rough weather in the north but it didn’t reach us. A bit gloomy but the flowers don’t seem to mind.
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oooh Pretty! What a great image of all the yellow flowers being buttered across the land. 🙂
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Thank you! 🙂
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I am so looking forward to this:
the burgeoning tsunami yellow
of crocuses and daffodils.
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Our garden is still waiting. I hope they bloom soon.
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Lovely Kim! I do so miss seeing crocuses and daffodils. 🙂❤️
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Thank you, Christine! 🙂
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I like how those flowers “butter the park like toast”.
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Thanks Frank!
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I’m waiting for the sunami of yellow, however our forecast is for snow!
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We had sleet and snow yesterday, Bev, after a sunny but very windy morning.
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Beautiful imagery.
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Thank you!
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Butter the park like toast…I love it! A while yet before we see any daffodils!
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Thank you, Mary. I hope Storm Ciara hasn’t dashed our hopes of daffodils.
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Butter the park!
Yes, that so works for these flowers. Very cool, I could see it all.
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You paint a lovely picture.
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Thank you, Ken!
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A lovely forecast for spring!
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Thank you!
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I am eagerly awaiting springs blooms to add a splash of color to this drab grey of winter. Beautiful poem.
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Thank you, Truedessa. We are still experiencing the backlash of Storm Ciara. Yesterday we had sleet and snow twisting the knife in too. No yellow in our garden yet, but the snowdrops have kept their promise!
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Clever use of imagery, like Alice i just fell into your poem
Much💝love
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Thank you, Gillena, and much love to you!
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Awaiting to drown in this tsunami of yellows 🙂 Wonderful poem Kim
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Thank you so much! I just hope the recent storm and the snow yesterday haven’t broken spring.
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“butter the park like toast” : throws hat in the air, cheering!
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Thank you, Sarah!
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This is quite lovely. I really enjoyed both the allusion to Persephone, and the line, “where winter aconites grow and butter the park like toast.”
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Thank you so much for reading and commenting, Shaun!
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Fantastic verbal imaging. Love flowers buttering the park like toast.
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Thank you, Yvonne
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Wonderful imagery Kim, looking forward to all the yellows to bloom after the sleet and rain! Hope you got through the storm safely 💜 xxx
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Thank you so much, Xenia. We survived the storm, heavy rain, sleet and snow, and today was windy and very cold, but bright. Apparently another storm is on the way. Batten down the hatches! 🙂 xxx
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“And butter the park like toast’- Brilliant line Kim!
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Thank you, Linda!
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Oh!wow, what a flowery treat!!
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Thank you, Vandana!
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Beautiful illustrations and imagery. And these words made me smile:
“and butter the park like toast.”
Yep…..
still smiling. 🙂
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Thank you, Lill. I’m happy I made you smile. 🙂
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kaykuala
What a fulfilling morning walk, Kim! Softness to the eyes!
Hank
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Thanks Hank!
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“like butter on toast”–I love that! I’m eagerly awaiting for our daffodils to bloom, but it’s so early yet–they’re usually up here in March and April.
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