Poetry by Debbie Ross

Photo by Suma Pugh on Unsplash

Stealing Spring

I rejected the Co-Op roses
fairly traded
and the garish daisies
from who knows where
I stole instead
the yellow daffodils
from a lay-by near the shore
and bought you home 
the buds of spring.

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Debbie Ross lives in the far north of Scotland and spends her time writing, baking and trying to capture light and joy - sometimes successfully.