The Crocuses- Copyright Robert Fullarton

The crocuses
by Robert Fullarton

Each year this crop yields
and grows
a delicate flower
a crocuse
whose saffron stems
were sought in ancient Persia
picked in fields
and sold to sultans
a precious spice
carried on ships across
seas and times
Venetian curiosities,
Dutch conquests
where the orient calls
the exotic window
 opens
in my porch
a short lived time
heralds a summer
of times of joy
and light returning