Nature Returns Poem by Yvonne Rautenbach

this is the sequel poem to the previous poem about the building of the housing estate here where I live

Nature Returns

They come to pick up berries they seem to darn the skies
the woodpecker, the heron and the diving dragonflies
Here a blue and there a brown the butterflies abound
with muntjac in the shadows with their strangely barking sound.
Awash with snails the hedgehogs feast discard the empty shells
all in the snapping seeding pods and the earthy woodland smells.
It's here, she's come the life is back and heaving in the peat
Pushing up the ancient ferns and hawthorn btter sweet.
She has returned despite her fall and all the builders crust
Risen from the piles of sand and settled concrete dust.