Daffodils by Susan Holmes
It’s nearly Spring and I’ve already noticed daffodil bulbs forming! You can see them in the parks, on grass verges and gardens all waiting for the time to bloom!
Daffodils I painted in Spring, 2020 from still life.
Daffodils I painted in march 2021
Below is a sonnet I wrote some years ago, ‘The Windmills - a sonnet’ the inspiration came from the famous poem ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ by William Wordsworth, which I love.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth | Poetry Foundation
The Windmills —- A Sonnet
I walked on alone through the milling crowd.
Past all the houses and pubs, shops and grills.
Then spied with shock, high on the hills, a proud
Far away group of war-like white windmills.
Running along the pale blue-grey sky-line
Manifesting the tawdry way they stray.
Uniform, their tall, smooth, unapt outline
Reaching out to a far distant highway.
The grass soft beside their solid pathway
Its timeless green-peace colour contradicts
These new wind-fed humming towers so fey.
But, I realized, how my needs conflict
And stared, knowing I should give some support
For all the cheap electricity they brought.
Susan Holmes 25.04.96
