WITHIN THE GREEN
Flowers of purity
Berries of beauty
Elder statesman
Standing proud…
…Yet harmonious within the green
Lichen Winter branches
Are as bare bones clutching
The grey skies in waiting
For bud-break Spring…
…Sweet symmetry within the green
Blossom bleeds heavenwards
In a cream cascade
Showering clouds of Summer
Inviting insects inquisitive…
…A blazing torch within the green
As flowers fade
Late Summer transformation
Deep dark fruits
Blink as eyes opened in the depths…
…A harvest in waiting within the green
Fast falls the Autumn
Yellowed keepsakes float with the year
The final berry’s picked clean
This icon of the hedgerow…
…grows vigilant within the green