On The Forest Floor

Avidly awaited, her appearance
a cause of great excitement
like any star of the stage - spring
enters capriciously, flaunting her
beauty yet vexingly ever the tease
hides it behind a veil of nature's
elements calling on wind to haul
ragged grey clouds over heaven's
canopy to dampen enthusiasm
overwhelmed by unceasing rain
just occasionally signalling the
sun to appear glowing over the
renewed landscape as incentive 
for grateful spring flowers to make
their appearances emerging from
the fecund soil to delight spring
welcoming her to the landscape
as coltsfoot, trout lily, trillium
and lily-of-the-valley, and the
nodding-head Jack-in-the-pulpit
stage their entry among violets
run amok on the forest floor.