It’s Mayday 2020

We’re stuck in lockdown and the world is discombobulated beyond the majority of our wildest conceptions.

Nature does not care however– the bluebells have actually flowered as regular, even up here in Northumberland, and I am advised of a poem I composed back in 2016, in the harmony of a Cotswold forest near my moms and dads’ house.

For many years I have actually gone into lots of poetry competitors (to no get!) and have actually never ever released a self-written poem on the blog site prior to. I figure there’s very little to lose at the minute so, if you’re missing out on the woods or the bluebells, or your soul or peaceful time in nature, this might or might not be for you! Here goes absolutely nothing …

Here among the bluebells

Here among the Bluebells …

… the world appears still. Stopped.

And atop this wild cathedra,

I feel stopped, at time out.

Elated, warm, at ease.

The birds sing out a gush,

Through this ancient vault of trees,

Sunshine puts satisfaction,

Cloaked in chorus on the breeze.

Nature spreads her happy play,

Ahead and all around,

Instilling real and overall peace,

Through silence masked in noise.

A sort of unity with air,

The world so hence confined,

Plentiful nothingness, deep-filled,

With peaceful life distilled.

They nod permission, (the Bluebells!),

To this idle happiness; to like.

They shine in peaceful piety,

Fact chiming in each bud.

Each quiet ring,

( Or whatever other spell they consider to conjure),

Exposes, re-fuels, fires up the soul,

Brings back the faith deep under.

With still-stopped heat in nature’s time out,

Elation twitches totally free.

Fragile, sneaky, powerful,

Joy-filled dancing, resilient peace.

A yearning soul, a lovelorn heart,

Discovers solace and release.

Am I enjoying myself? I am.

In happiness in myself, within myself …

… among the bells of blue?

— I am!

Lucy Holmes

Wild wants to you all for a merry Mayday! Might your bluebells be lots of, your soul-song ring extremely and your lockdown fly quickly.

Northumberland readers, the NSPCC bluebell walk at Ratcheugh Crag (24th Might this year) might be taking place practically, so watch on their Facebook page. Check out our Mum and Child day at the bluebell stroll a number of years back, total with chocolate cake and body boarding at the beach!

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