GREEN

I.

Green and verdant is the colour

of my Mother Earth: lush, sloping valleys,

treed mountainsides, forests stretching to forever

in the places where man has not yet been,

brown the human footprint upon the planetary garden.

Green is the color of life, of growth:

from seed to sprout to tendril, root to stem, branch to flower,

life follows its predestined path from birth to death,

at every level of existence.

Our DNA is programmed to be awed by green,

as we watch the weeping willow's yellow winter branches

begin to sprout, until they surround us like a verdant cloak,

us hidden sweetly inside,

the scent of summer deep within its leafy bower.

II.

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Humankind took this verdant, luscious Eden

and had but one desire:

to gobble all the green

until only brown bare dry scorched earth

remained.

III.

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I believe trees  scream in green

when they see the
grappleyarders coming.

for Susan's Mid Week Motiff prompt: GREEN in fourteen lines or less.