Woodland Succession

It is her private passion, a longing
to wander about in nature's preserves
and so she indulges doing just that
whenever the opportunity arises and
she hugs herself with joy that she is
able to take advantage of those times
plentiful during her leisure days
enabling her to pass intimate hours
strolling woodland trails, her senses
alert for signals she has long recognized
that the time and the place is right when
she may re-acquaint herself with the
seasonal presence of delicate, fragrant
and colourful wildflowers, blooming
shrubs and trees, all calibrated to
know their allotted presence in the
choreographed sequence that nature
has devised in her proud succession
of flora that animate and decorate the
forest floor, stretching their stems and
their exquisite petals to the sky above
in a fascinating celebration of life
and renewal and the eagerness of all
growing things to flaunt their presence
certain of their unique aesthetic
reflecting their importance in their
maker's complex blueprint of sublime
existence from simple primitive 
specimens to the most complex and
lovely in texture, appeal and shape
beautiful to behold for the brief periods
in which they are commanded to appear.