Poems (Tynan)/Pink Almond
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.