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Everlasting Beauty

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Magnificent

magnolia

all year-long

your loveliness

blooms

In springtime

your flowers

overwhelm me

with a canopy

of petals

and perfume

Soon blossoms

flutter

as feathers

to earth

leaving behind

an emerald cape

accentuating

your girth

By mid-summer

day

your provision

of shade

shelters birds

and children

at play

Your cloak

turning

golden

in late autumn

reflects

the brilliance

of a sinking

sun

Until even

your leaves

fall to earth

telling me

this season

too…

is done

Yet

still

you’re richly

robed

as spring buds

begin

to fill

Fuzzy

and swollen

with potential

expanding

all winter

till spring

when your mantle

you’ll spill!

Wendy/2012

Everlasting Blessings ~ Wendy

This magnolia tree was planted, many years ago, by the previous owner of our place.  She said that her children loved to play under it.  It is much too large for most modern-day gardens, however, it is most welcome in the woodland area of ours.  I just toss the fallen leaves underneath it each autumn and leave them.