hmm what to share today

Right how about this one another idyll describing the seasons as they turn throughout the year.  Some of it very appropriate given the way that nature is flexing her muscles just now.

Ode to Nature

Autumn Equinox has passed now,

Darkness hours grow more and more

Summer days have gone behind us

Winter’s knocking at our door

Trees that once were green and luscious

Lose their leaves all crisp and dry

Branches like skeleton fingers

Stretching up to cold, grey sky

Every day the sun grows weaker

Now it does not warm the air

As the winter fast approaches

Farmers’ fields are all laid bare

Strong cold winds that batter buildings

Destroys trees and garden fence

Heavy rain falls causing flooding

Damage which does not make sense.

Every year we see this battle

Nature versus humankind

Sometimes we must stop and wonder

Just what nature has in mind.

Then, when wintertime has gone by,

Nature shows her tender side

Green grass grows and flowers blossom

White clouds high above us glide

Perhaps nature shows her power

To help us open up our eyes

Just to give a perfect contrast

Make us see where beauty lies

Could we feel joy, if there’s no hurt?

Without dark, would we know light?

After winter, there comes spring time

I think nature has it right.

Freda October 2010