Ode to the "big" little flower

Crocuses in front of the house.  Photo credit:  Kathryn Pandowski

Now, in front of the house, in January

colourful, tiny flowers bloom in glory

telling us it’s ‘Spring’ here in Victoria

(a month early)

born from Nature’s hocus-pocus

most people walk by, do not notice

because they’re pre-occupied with pocus-hocus.

Only a few see these tiny Crocus, 

and bend down in wonder. Focus.

For only when you see these gems

will you experience the wonder

of Nature’s hocus-pocus.

Henri van Bentum