A Love Song to Middle-Earth in Spring by Himring

Chapter 1

The poem has received a nomination for the Tree & Flower Awards 2015 at the LOTR Community on LiveJournal, for which much thanks.

Made by Ysilme. Photo credit: Ysilme

Though all to ruin fell the world,
yet were its making good for this:
the banners of Earth's spring unfurled--
though all to ruin fell the world!--
the bright green of its leaves uncurled,
awoken by the sun's first kiss.
Though all to ruin fell the world,
yet were its making good for this.

Still were its making good for this:
the dusk, the dawn, the earth, the sea!
Still were its making good for this,
unmade into the old abyss
after a time though all should be.
Still were its making good for this:
the dusk, the dawn; the earth, the sea.

Chapter End Notes

I was also thinking of the following description of the first sunrise: As the host of Fingolfin marched into Mithrim, the Sun rose flaming in the West; and Fingolfin unfurled his blue and silver banners, and blew his horns, and flowers sprang beneath his marching feet, and the ages of the stars were ended.
The idea was to take the basic couplet from Tolkien and add three lines of my own to make a triolet. That is what I did in the first stanza. The second stanza just went and added itself, without any plan of mine; it's almost entirely from Tolkien, but slightly tweaked.