Seasonal Visitors

I hear the gentle rain
Mixed into the sounds of downpour
As a glistening refrain
Soaking through the ground floor
Walking amongst the freshly unbent boughs
Amid green carpets and  newly minted sprouts
My newest companion Spring awakens all from drowse
Thus erasing sleepy questions and doubts
No more the forest sleeps
I am thawed out and nimble once again
To jump with joyous bounds and leaps
All due to op'ning the door to my d'main
Not drawn within but led without
To witness growth and rebirth
My devotion to Spring's arrival devout
Of the Great and Glorious blossoming of the earth
A season so quickly comes and goes
Being so easy to befriend
This cycle that begins at Winter's close
Is always the balm required to mend
The welcome energy anew
Accrues my praises
Though Spring dances right through
With a happy heart I embrace Spring's phases




























I hobble to the door to see what's there
Upon it's opening wide
Catching scent of Autumn's air
My step, now a stride
To move away off my sunbleach'd porch
Grabbing the leaf nearest me t'was downward cast
Raising it like a dazzling torch
It shines it's red delight at last
So here it is, the proof I seek
Of Autumn's short presence
The telltale sign of end of Summer's peak
In my desirous pleasance
Noticed I a turning of the leaf left it's mark yet
Upon the landscape that surrounds
I trail with this season I met
Walking with it all the days upon the grounds
I have seen Autumn before
Each confluent year
Meeting me at my door
And I am always here
Greeting the Seasons Four

 - Melanie Davis September 16th, 2014.