Snowmelt

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I like this.

I think it would be better if the words were outside of the actual picture. Either that, or maybe change the font colour to white. The deep red on the green/black is difficult on the eyes (at least for me).

Other than that, it's an interesting picture with a good combination of words

Thanks for stopping by, emz. I was aiming for the text to be barely visible but I may have taken it a bit too far. I like the red on green because that's the way it grows, with the red threading its way through the green, but I'll see if I can tweak it, the app must be around here somewhere.

I love the way the image IS the poem. But I shy from 'bleeding heart' as a cliche.

Does it grow where you are? Lamprocapnos spectabilis, bleeding heart is what it's called here. It erupts from bare ground first thing in spring with the bulbs, forms a nice sized bush then disappears by mid-summer. I'll think about whether a word other than bleeding would work, but I love the common names of flowers, Nigella's love-in-a-mist is my favorite.