Spiralling through the sunbeams
a flash of brilliance bright
a gift of my wood-dreams
a precious, holy sight.
Spinning, swirling, skirting
a twirling dance of spring
wild and passionate and flirting
romance on the wing.
The black and white and scarlet
'midst forty shades of green
a crown prince and a starlet
a symbol of Nature's dream.
In the wood in the sunlight
in this sylvan cathedral vast
dancing through the leaf-light
the future and the past.
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Inspired by watching a pair of courting Greater Spotted Woodpeckers soar in their courtship dance.
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