Hello to you!

It’s spring, and I just heard the shining cuckoo, pipiwharauora, announcing its return! It’s always such a thrill to hear it. For me the call of the kingfisher, kotare, is the first sign of spring, but there is something very special about the return of the elusive cuckoo.

When you’re letting the garden go (like I am) and it is spring (like it is here), you can expect a lot of weeds. Here I share about coming to terms with that (in the garden, but mostly in life)…

Here are two poems I shared on social media last week. Both of them speak to that indefinable moment of discovering who we are, and what we might need to say goodbye to in order embody that.

I hope you enjoy them…

All of my recent poems are available on my website. If you would like to you can browse them on my Poetry page, and you can also listen to me reading a selection of my nature poems here.

With love,
Mary xx

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