Increasing My Vocabulary

I love when I can learn a new word and add it to my vocabulary. My "Word Du Jour" is copse: a thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood. I did not know that nor have I ever heard of this word before, so there you go. Copse is the prompt at One Single Impression this week, so please check out others' interpretations of this prompt.

traipsing through the copse
I looked down and there it was
the face of nature

This picture was taken last week by my husband while on a walk through the woods- loved it!!!!





entering under the canopy of leaves
transported into
a verdant sanctuary
with shafts of distilled sunlight~
abundant with
the sounds of
twigs crackling and breaking
somewhere close by the burbling of the "crick"
the distant cries of birds and others
the whining and whirring of the unseen
a language all their own~
a log ancient with time
but teeming with a self-contained world
leaves and copse
representing every shade of green imaginable
the myriad of woodland creatures that call this place home
have allowed a glimpse into this parallel universe