Full Circle

Darkness runs through winter, When the chill wind blows And twigs snap as a splinter In the ice before it snows. Winters cape lifts in spring As shafts of light peek through Nature wakens in shoots and buds When snowdrops stand tall and true. Summer brings butterfly's and bees Warm winds kiss all they caress And rustle leaves on ancient trees With nature's bounty in excess. Autumn's rich harvest of crops Cut under a harvest moon Where farmers pull out all the stops And barns brim full all too soon. A new Winter casts its icy cape As yet another year has passed And the landscape takes a different shape When ice and snow is again forecast.