it’s spring
the sprint is on
peony shoots rise up
garden is coming alive, now
nature
bold in its infinite wonder
flaunting its ugly side
agile microbe –
a plague

Pat R

3/31/20

For Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge where the Specific Form this time around is a cinquain

Butterfly cinquain:-
a nine-line syllabic form with the pattern two, four, six, eight, two, eight, six, four, two.