Meercat alert, tips of honeysuckle
peer attentive, curious, from above
the lilac breaking green, faintly purple
even, bursting into springtime raiment.
Winding ways up the ancient ivy-clad
trunk, the honeysuckle gathers and clumps
before stretching out long slim necks in search
of further destinations, there it waits
as the lilac swells heavy purple blooms
among bountiful heart shaped leaves.
The honeysuckle, greening early, turns
it’s pointy snout with the breeze, just biding
time until the blousy lilac, the red
peonies, confetti the waiting ground;
ostentation nose-diving while wiry
tenacity holds the honeysuckle
bloom longer further from its origins
as companion to baggeson’s gold.