~   Blossoming Heather   ~
   

Tiny seed, so fragile, carried weightless through the air,
Dropped in cracks and crevices, growing anywhere.
Elements of nature’s wrath, new roots detach with ease,
Whirling Heather o’er plateau’s, into a gentler breeze.

 
Floating into wild field greens, Heather nestles in,
Arms reaching in rich soil, where mountain streams begin.
 Striving, drying, tendrils, determined to survive,
Rehydrates the will to live, Heather comes alive.
 

Barely budding blossoms, Heather, not yet fully grown,
Maturing, branching out, forming a structure of her own.
Evolving into loveliness, cross mountainside she climbs,
Manifesting her own beauty, Blossoming Heather defined.

 


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