Lent Challenge Week 6

Wednesday April 9th

Colours of Spring are changing

Leaves unfurl, speckles

Vie with the yellow.

Thursday April 10th

Stone, knapped and placed,

Shaping walls of strength

A jigsaw of skill, like friendship.

       

Friday April 11th

The mine is closed now

The road to it a cart track,

Its traces now grassed.

Saturday April 12th

Bright, hard wastes of rape,

Softened by the green fields of wheat,

Landscape’s chequerboard.

Sunday April 13th Palm Sunday

A single bluebell

Jesus riding to his death,

Above a lark sings.

Monday April 14th

The dark of the night

Breeds black thoughts, old spectres rise

Like a Mary Rose.

Tuesday April 15th

Portsmouth

 Four forts of the sea

Stand in stubby majesty

En guard against invasion.

Rusty, in decline

But between towers and spires

on land, masts at sea

they're trusty bulldogs.