Through the Year

The garden bursting with the green of spring Each bud and leaf have promises to keep New life this emerging season brings In summer the warmth soaks elbow deep The fish jump high and living is sweet Full of summer love we drift to sleep Now fall colors go dancing round our feet Days of harvest before we watch geese fly With some regret the waning days we greet Winter arrives, with frosty breath it sighs Thoughts turn inward, days pass one by one WE hear music of the north wind's lonesome cry Then at last another year is closed and done and we greet the rise of a springtime sun