Autumn's graceful scatter of leaves red, gold and brown
Soon produce this soft warm carpet to cover all around
Bedding for those that hibernate all the winter through
The hedgehog, the badger and small creatures like the shrew
And as we walk our dogs and children along the wooded paths
The crystalled air is filled with their joyful barks and laughs
When frosts come soon the brittled leaves are broken down
The fragments make a compost that mixes with the ground
And waiting for that feast below are so many worms and bugs
Chewing up the fragments and leaving lots of fertile dust
On warmer days in winter badgers may come out to have a stretch
And dine upon some worms they find as in the mulch they scratch
And sometime in the spring's soft light new ferns will surely sprout
Look around and see where green crozier fronds are peeping out
Some bulbs may sport their first fresh leaves and bluebells follow soon
Their pale blue carpet looks divine when seen by the gentle light of moon
Not long now till the song birds fill the air with their delight
Spring has sprung as ever and brings with it such fair sights
With life renewed our hopes are high that this year will be one
That sometime in the future we will have great memories to dwell upon
(c)Rhumour
October 3rd 2008
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