Seasons (Jack Roberts’ Challenge)

The Vernal Fairy dances free

As she calls the leaves to dress the trees

Her magic stick touches down

To coax the grasses from the ground

Her fairy dust she spreads as mist

Commands the flowers to assist

In rebirth of the garden's blooms

To dress the earth in colored plumes

Hail the glory of Summer's Fairy

Who lights the days and makes them merry

She calls the breeze to gently blow

And the sun to shine its brightest glow

She beckons roses to cast their scent

And perfume the air so opulent

She ripes berries and sweetens peach

And casts her moonlight upon the beach

The Autumn Fairy we shall behold

As she turns green leaves to rusty gold

She casts a spell upon the trees

To ripe their fruits and drop their leaves

The grass she turns to tawny brown

She bares the pumpkins on the ground

Warm rain she calls to damp the earth

And bed the leaves for winter's birth

The Winter Fairy in gown of white

Calls short the day and long the night

She crisps the wind and chills the air

Brings icy glow to trees gone bare

Her blue-white snow beneath moonlight

Brings quiet calm to winter’s night

As her magic lulls the earth to sleep

Her seeds of promise, planted deep

Through change of season life moves on

From spawn of bud to blossom gone

Midst bright red leaves that paint the earth

To the white of snow, and promised birth

As seasons pass and years do go

We watch our crops and children grow

While we search to find our fated reason

We learn that life is but a season

Sherry Gail Heim

October 28, 2004

Copyright © Sherry Gail Heim 2004