Nature's Bloom

• Cara Alexander, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2011

You are ever so graceful with your floral blooms, the petals that fall give off an aroma so pure it could cleanse your soul. Your towering foliage shades my sorrow and your light shines with radiance and warms the earth. The elegance you express is so beautiful it melts the sky, and makes the leaves dance in the wind. Your trees whisper as if sharing wisdom, as the birds flow with the breeze. The owls stare with beautifully beady eyes under the pale blue illumination of the moon, which showers through the trees, tracing out the delicacy of its branches. The sun rises over the hills as a new day is dawning.