Sketch

The trees are weary
         see their tired leaves
drooping on this grey morning
         already hints of autumn shades
have blighted the green foliage :
         it could be an early winter
and yet summer
         has barely begun

What’s needed
         is a little sunshine
to perk up the chlorophyll
         to get the old sap rising
to reinvigorate the landscape
         to reignite nature’s love affair
with itself—to put the birds
         and the bees back on track

John Lyons