Poems (Tynan)/Pink Almond

by Katharine Tynan

PINK ALMOND

So delicate, so airy,
 The almond on the tree,
Pink stars that some good fairy
 Has made for you and me.

A little cloud of roses,
 All in a world of gray,
The almond flower uncloses
 Upon the wild March day.

A mist of roses blowing
 The way of fog and sleet,
A dust of roses showing
 For gray dust in the street.

Pink snow upon the branches,
 Pink snowflakes falling down
In rosy avalanches
 Upon the dreary town.

A rain, a shower of roses,
 All in a roseless day;
The almond-tree uncloses
 Her roses on the gray.