Falling blossoms

Fragrant

silken pirouettes

Floating and settling

in beauteous heaps

Cherry red

and lotus pink

apple blossom white

Likened to snowdrifts

Only softer

less transient

Yet still in time

trampled underfoot

and in the first good rain

Sent swirling back

to whence they came

© Ann Bagnall

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