*** A spring poem for you ***
By Natasha Anne Kelleher (March 2020)
Pink green hued leaves
Spring forth from nature’s lungs
Sunlight dappled through each
Fruitful laden twigs and branches wooden tongues
Stippling all in warmth of golden glow
Wherein upon through the miracle
Of photosynthesis their miracles do flow
They perpetuate incessantly
Through each season to grow
Blessing the planet year on year
Their brilliant colours splaying
Their ambiance ever aglow
Whilst freshening and cleaning
Earth’s air oxygen arraying
Their searching tentacle roots
Burrow deep underground
Hidden by darkness and cold
Ever there… burgeoning and old
How fortunate mankind to have their shade aloft
Amid the wide open meadows fields and crofts
Their ever present calm
The true friends of our earth
By which humans are encircled
Protected by their life giving breathing and enveloping arms…
Mamma Gia’s nature sheilding her children matriarchally

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