Alan Maley has been involved with training teachers of TESOL/TEFL for 50 years.  He has published widely.  He was co-founder of The C Group (Creativity for Change in Language Education).  He is a regular contributor to  HLT Mag. Email: yelamoo@yahoo.co.uk

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vacant and pensive?

what could be the cause of this?

daffodils perhaps?

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these purple blushes

on lilacs, skin-deep, before

the blossom explodes ...

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horse chestnut buds burst -

velvet-green candelabras -

 

freed of sticky sheaths ...

 

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gold powdered bubbles

pollening pussy-willows –

spring jewellery shop …

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trees in a frenzy,

threshing leaves, lynching branches

in this wild West wind ...

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lime green beech leaves

float in a Japanese screen -

quivering with spring ...