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life leaves leaf

Life leaves leaf

Dark clouds part
Spring sun warms land
Sleepy tree opens wardrobe
Fresh green cloak covers naked frame
Squirrel gymnastics performed against vibrant backdrop
Ignored by blackbirds busy building

Summer arrives
Leaf’s heyday
Flutters in warm breeze
Veins pump life into dainty form
Nature’s simplistic beauty

Too soon chill spreads across land
Winds gust challenging life
Leaf resists but colour changes
Green tinged with brown

Tree draws inward
Leaf’s lifeblood turned off
Brown vista prevails
Then airborne in autumn sky

Dark clouds draw in
Bleak winter arrives
Grounded, shrivelled, still
Life leaves leaf
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