light green 
 empty branch arms  
turned away
  from the brown brick house
held in line 
by the  gray
  edge stones
sinking  deeper into 
Winter's drab slumber
biding time 
until the dream of Spring's 
budding promise 
becomes a  solid future  
with a  stunningly
luscious wave 
of hot pink
Hibiscus  flowers  
 as a backdrop
to  the brown brick house 
kept in check 
by  gray edge stones
until  the petals drop 
into the sneaky
 Autumn sun  
and  desolation 
sets up shop 
in lonely green arms
 again