The Endless Cycle

The fresh green shield of
newly-leafed trees
speak to spring's timeless
mission entrusted to return
life to a sere landscape
reeling into its awakened
state recovering from
winter's blasts of ice
and wind and relentless
cold. Even as dusk falls
and that rich green glows
like a vast emerald jewel
the pace of reawakening
intensifies with conifers
and deciduous sending
their seeds on the willing
warm wind to scatter on
the forest floor, nestling
deep within the warm moist
humus to germinate, the 
cycle to be repeated endlessly.