Nature's Cue

An English Sonnet for Spring

The winter ground where my garden once slept,
Is warming up to savor life once more.
Safe and dormant they have been safely kept,
Now peaking new blossoms of spring's decor.

How I have longed for the sweet morning dew,
To surrender sweet smells of the newest blooms.
Spring's performance upon nature's cue,
Sending sweet scents of it's renown perfume.

Gentle sprouts taking their bow above ground,
Introducing the English creeping vine;
To dance, linger and cling and wrap around
Crisscrossed lattice and archways intertwined.

Oh, colour and smells of an Eden place
Nature's coloured palette touched by her grace.

Form: English (Shakespearean) Sonnet ~ consists of fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter, a pattern in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable five times. The rhyme scheme in a Shakespearean sonnet is a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g; the last two lines are a rhyming couplet.