The Passion of Wild Wind-Bursts

 

The violent bursts of angry wind split

and struck down the glory of the forest.

Leaving giant old poplars, pines and spruce

splintered, torn asunder, thundering down

on the forest floor, the transition from life

to death as sudden as the micro bursts of

hurricane-force winds raging through the

dark atmosphere striking down one hapless

giant following another, sending creatures of

the forest into a frenzy of panicked flight

from the powerful threat that so disastrously

struck their nests and dens leaving sodden

havoc in its wake. Just as suddenly as the

attack began, it dwindled into nothing and

nothing was left quite intact in the shattered

forest with a will to rebuild itself to stand once

again tall and proud as saplings soon sprang up

in defiance and cardinals trilled their delight.