Spring

• Oliver Lovering, Grade 5, St Columbas School
• Poetry
• 2015

Excellence Award in the 'The Write Track 2015' competition

The cold winter is melting away
A single red bird was spotted today

Through the mist the sun is peeking
Squirrels are about the acorn seeking

The new life has come to fields and woods
Kids venture with sweat-shirts and hoods

In just a few weeks the river will flow
Blossoms on the tree start to glow

There's still a chill on the spring time air
Winter is gone but memory is still there

Summer is waiting a few months beyond
To warm the air the meadows and ponds

A gopher peers out from the holes that he makes
Spring time is when the whole world awakes