Four Seasons In One Year

Softly, slowly, sinking
Gone in a mere twinkling
Lusterless leaves lowering
On an autumn breeze

Chameleon-like changing colour
Bright display before winter's pallour
Delicately drying ... dying
Leaving naked branches

Fragile filaments flattened
Against winter's blast windows battened
Boldly blowing blizzard
Obliterates summers past

Inclement iciness imperiled
Spring's bounty comes unfurled
Tender tendrils twining
Flexible in their new birth

Blooms bursting brightly
New life grips earth tightly
Summer's strength surprises
Long hot days so delightful

Heat's hold hesitates
Season's prime now abates
Vegetation's vanishing vainglory
Tiredly seeking season's rest