The Arc of Life

There is pleasure, leisure and
tranquility to be found in unspoiled
nature and it can be found readily
welcoming in a forest, vibrant and
verdant in spring, newborn and
teeming with gentle introductions
to sequential surprises readily
available to any who enter
in search of serenity and beauty
evanescent and ethereal in scenes
in transit as the landscape hums and
responds to the orchestral pluckings
of wild thunderstorms and warming
sun enticing the forest floor to
awaken its tenants and burst into
flower in the moist tenderness of
generations of leaf mass nursing 
the product of the forest where decay
hastens reproduction in the cradle
of its nutrients. Strolling forest paths
in a soothing hypnosis of mystical
day-dreaming the subconscious stirs
to recall inherited memory imprinted
deeply as a valued memento of the
past. All senses are alerted as the
fragrance of flowered seedlings float
in the atmosphere from canopy to ground
and the rhapsodic paeon of songbirds
the whirr of bees, the flutter of
butterflies lend the magic of creation
shape and movement on this earthly ark.