Ostara greetings! As of 3.06am on 20th March, the spring equinox is finally here. Hurray! I for one hope that the good weather will follow. We deserve some sun after all the dreary rain and endless grey in Northern Ireland.
Today is World Poetry Day. I don’t have too many poems that are spring themed, but this one will have to suffice. Called ‘Sunshine’, it was published just over a decade ago in English magazine, ‘Tips for Writers’ Issue 94, which is archived at the Poetry Library in the Royal Festival Hall, London. Wanna listen? Alright then, grab a cuppa. Better make it quick. The video is only 48 seconds long – get yet skates on!
Leilanie Stewart is an award-winning author and poet from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She writes ghost and psychological horror, as well as experimental poetry. Her writing confronts the nature of self; her novels feature main characters on a dark psychological journey who have a crisis and create a new sense of identity. She began writing for publication while working as an English teacher in Japan, a career pathway that has influenced themes in her writing. Her former career as an Archaeologist has also inspired her writing and she has incorporated elements of archaeology and mythology into both her fiction and poetry.
In addition to promoting her own work, Leilanie runs Bindweed Anthologies, a creative writing publication with her writer husband, Joseph Robert. Aside from publishing pursuits, Leilanie enjoys spending time with her husband and their lively literary lad, a voracious reader of sea monster books.
Leilanie Stewart 
Happy National Poetry Day. I love your wreaths crown and you spring poem.