“White elder blossom and dog roses hung in the hedges, blank as unwritten paper, and the hot empty road reflected Sunday’s waste and indifference. High sulky summer sucked me towards it” (As I walked out one Midsummer morning by Laurie Lee)
Its blank flower is the palest of vellum
Stretched to a scent of twilight reminder
In patience of elders — sulky invaders.
I’m waiting for poems to bleed in laburnum.
A single quatrain written for Laura’s prompt on dVerse where she inspires with both the poems and some prose written by Laurie Lee.
Björn Rudbergs writings 
‘sulky invaders’ – ‘twilight reminder’ – great coupling with those adjectives
I haven’t seen a laburnum in years. I think they must have gone out of fashion. That they should bleed is certainly a striking image.
Love your choice of words Bjorn.
ABBA is bang on, brother. You certainly do know your flowers and colors.
The scent of elder stretched like vellum is masterful, Bjorn.
I had to look laburnum up. Like the helleborus, all parts of the laburnum are toxic. I wonder if that plays into the bleeding trees?
delightful but that last line won my heart 🙂
I really liked the second line – I can feel myself stretching to get a whiff of poetry.
I like the way in which you conjured the images; the allude to me of some kind of natural borders and juxtapositions.
Palest of vellum – a story to tell, delightful imagery.
A beautiful quatrain….that last line is gorgeou.s
This is beautiful in its gentleness Björn.
I like the scent as a reminder…it so often is. (K)
Excellent.
Evocative and iconic, Bjorn! A beautiful complement to the Laurie Lee lines that you chose!