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The flourish of color
That graces the dull grey branches
Is only a shadow
Of the amazing depths
Of forests around the world
Our world secretes so many
Varieties of life
That they seem to flow out past all boundaries of phylum and species
From birds dancing in frenzied arrays of feathers
That glow brilliantly in the faint light of the forest’s understory
To the majesty of the breaching whales,
Water shimmering in the arctic summer sun
Striped hooved figures move in scores
Over the wet, flooded savannas, cerulean skies reflected on the waters that embrace the verdant plains
The wild thrill
Of the arctic wolf’s cry
That echoes
Over wide open snows
The thunder
Of hooves
Over the spacious plains
In blurs of white, brown black and bay
Travel around the world
To the African plains
And see the ragged lean figures of the wild dogs,
That search with keen eyes and noses
The svelte silhouettes of the impala
That leaps in great bounds
Over the brush
As the waters flow
Over rocks and stones,
To cascade in the highest fall
In the Venezuelan rain forest,
All stops
As a bird gives a single feral cry
That seems in an instant to capture the untamed notions and graces
Of the cobalt snow and jade orb
That whirls through the unending, impending darkness and glitter of the universe
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