U is for Unveil #AtoZ Challenge

I am doing a poem a day this month for National Poetry Month.  The poems are inspired by Maine vanity license plates I've photographed over the past year. 

Day 22 of the AtoZ Challenge is dedicated to the letter U!  And my U word is UNVEIL... 

Veils

The trees in fall becoming bare have rare and colorful beauty;

I wish they'd always look that way

For bright colored leaves just suit me.

It's always sad to see them go to drift and swirl to ground,

Unveiling all the tree branches

with a farewell swishing sound.

The winter snows attempt a veil with fluff and puffs of white,

But in the sun the snows unveil

and melt without a fight.

Winter's stark and dark will end when lightly springs the veil

On breezes blue with yellow sun -

as green tulle freshens stale.

Once more the trees are under wraps of multi-hues of green;

their heads all covered and their limbs

with nests, in veils, unseen.

Then summer's end sees all that change to colors red and gold,

until again the trees, unveiled,

Return to gray and cold.

We'll seek again spring's drape of green, we know its sure return;

This veil of haze rewards our gaze

From tree's top down to fern.

by Donna JT Smith©2019

 

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