This is an amazing poem by my Best Friend Ellie. She is an amazing writer so I hope you like it.
As snow starts to fall on the forest floor, I kiss autumn goodbye, just as before, My roots feel the cold, through the soil it seeps. Friends find their dens,as frost heralds our sleep.
My leaves have left me, my branches are bare, Twigs snap underfoot, breath hangs in the air. Glistening crystals, deep browns, evergreen, Once teeming with life that now can't be seen.
But as night follows day, and day follows dawn We awaken again, revived, reborn. The snow slips away, my branches unveiled New life is breathed in; the forest exhales
A badger, a fox, a rabbit, a wren The song of a skylark trilling again Green buds pushing through, my old bark gives way, A carpet of bluebells where snow once lay.
Days start to get longer; sun floods our home Lush ferns envelop us; cubs start to roam Scent of wildflowers and bees fill the air The summer haze often too hot to bear
Velvety moss next to cool flowing springs As newts dart and swim, a kingfisher sings Light filters through my canopy of leaves As I exhale, the earth silently breathes
Then one day a leaf will start to turn red Or orange or brown and fall to its bed Badgers with nuts and squirrels with acorns Bushes filled with berries, brambles and thorns
Iridescent sunsets light up our skies The perfect backdrop for trees such as I Against the horizon, beacons we stand Silhouetted guards of a sleeping hand
I'm centuries old, so trust me, I know Our world is beautiful don't let it go
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