Paradise found…

I stroll
leisurely across
green grassy meadows,
feeling my feet sink into thick
soft luscious green cushion with every
step I take. I taste the warm sun upon
my skin, and wend my down to the soft
bubbling brook, which then glides gently,
meandering quietly into the forest ahead.

Canopied with outstretched arms
of verdant green, entwining and caressing,
like snakes in a courtship dance, swaying gently
to breeze blowing silently through them, I enter this
haven, a temple of perfect peace, a shelter to cool me from the morning sun.

Here I find relief beneath this creation of God.

Natures hand has played a roll, and as I wind my way around
obstacles that lay in my path, I notice, that within these fallen
trees, with burrowed holes, if I look closely enough, I find, nestling
creatures who have found their sanctuary here from roving eyes like mine.

Vegetation of emerald green, pulpy and plush, reach out and touch me as I
walk by. All this beauty that lies in my wake, I am lost, in Paradise found. I sit
myself down beneath an enormous forest fern, and dangle my feet into the cool
flowing crystal clear stream, that has coursed its way into the heart of Paradise.

I sit and contemplate a while, on serenity found.
Overhead I hear the soft melodic bird calls, and a flutter of wings
as these multicoloured creations fly from tree to tree. The soft whirring
sound, of butterfly wings, the shrill of the cicadas, which live in the trees.

All of this beauty, which soothes my tired senses.
Tiredness overwhelms me, and I lay back on a soft green moss carpet,
relaxing my body and mind, suddenly my eyes catch a glimpse of a prism
of light, barely peeping through a minute gap in this heavenly canopy.

My eyes follow the streak of glistening light, and it comes to
rest upon an autumnal coloured carpet, of red, yellow
and ochre of the fallen
leaves, that now
lay piled, creating the
mulches to fertilize
the new undergrowth,
which in time, will grow,
and may become the
majestic ones I now see.

© E. Bretton