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November’s fae time

The glistening of sunlight on leaves All a spiral The November shuddering tugging away At the last semblance that lacy adorning Brimstone and sulphur on this blue sky day Slated grey boughs search upwards on tip toe As a lowly … Continue reading

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A pea soupy sky

Bucketing down from a pea soupy sky Bashing the window glass I’m in the dry But it’s cold, energy off A chill really deep down A fluttering silhouette A copper Beech crown A vicious vile wind In Berkhamsted town

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Joyful refrains

I am a Copper Beech In a poets garden I look in his study No plea or pardon It’s late November A bright crisp blue Sky above me good and true Spangled golden leaves hang fast Whispering melodies of the … Continue reading

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21st a November a Monday

Belligerently some of the leaves Are hanging on really and A vicious wind heaving gusts It’s hard to understand How leaves grab hold the branches not wanting to fly Getting a real buffeting By a grey and angry sky

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Beech tree splendour in mid November

I have a Beech before me It’s copper leaves on fire The sunlight depicting wondrously q Of its varied hues I cannot tire The wind has stolen some of them But those still hanging fast Are beautiful and golden As … Continue reading

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Trees

Light and dark And cold and wet Mature and saplings Straight and set Fair crooked bent and short A philosophy thats Big  on thought Wildness builds a forest green Gnarled and straight up Rocks the scene Forests really in full … Continue reading

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Oxygen

A canopy of all seeing eyes Sucking light into their being Unfolding revelations Their efforts really freeing The oxygen that we Standing under dreaming demand ostensibly

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Proctor and Gamble

Reputation means something in corporate eyes a good name and character About the size respectability fashion acclaim what of the Palm Oil it isn’t a game not any more The  rainforests cry The orangutans suffering and many die abused unrelentingly … Continue reading

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Logging ancient forests for bark mulch and toilet rolls

The futility of logging Of wasting ancientness Trees give so much back in life Profiteering stress The evidence is conclusive Perpetuity Unmade and unbegotten Irreconcilability

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The insanity of NSW and all for woodchip

Ashamed they are Advising don’t spread the message far What they do in NSW the forest yes they scar Rip out oxygenating trees for wood chip Councils there are clearly in denial Just how insane they are

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Logging beautiful forests the mayhem of monsters

The lack of wonder Resident in the government Of NSW Over its needs to clear forests Of wonderment Of awe inspiring beauty Such irreverence Such stony indifference

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NSW logging madness of the demented

In NSW they are hopelessly asleep Unconscious to the predicament That makes some of us weep Our precious trees their abundance Their value to us all Not as wood chip not as logging There’s another call God like in their … Continue reading

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A couple of days after the heatwave

Puffy clouds in a sea of blue a stillness really breaking through The rustling copper leaves where light darkens and lightens  however slight i love the sunlight drawing hue the artistry that just peeps through a lattice effect on the … Continue reading

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Hot sun and its stress on front garden trees facing south

Cherry tree leaves forlornly Hang downwards clustered they Rock out in the blazing sun On this Summers day Sun kissed burnished branches In the shadow of the Beech Resplendent in its coppery gown Where both roots do reach Comforting each … Continue reading

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Poor old tree

the trunk was hacked off by the crazy builders and i asked for it i just lthought That I would stand it in the sunshine in my garden to watch and to see the life force which is why   … Continue reading

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The Tree

Look at that splendid oak tree ripened with the many years its stood there advertising its massive strength  and its willingness to purposely provide an induspensible refuge for so many souls to hide moth caterpillars the maidens blush loves the … Continue reading

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The old cherry tree

it had stood thirty years in my garden about twenty feet high in the shade of a Copper Beech real strong and mighty two splendid souls on parade   five years or so  ago someone not an arbourist sadly came … Continue reading

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Rollrights

At the Rollrights Always listen to the coming of the dawn to the muses  heard at twilight far away towards the corn listen to the grove of trees that silently proclaim stand beside the glorious Elder of Long Compton fame … Continue reading

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

Muyicha Mufabule a man able to prioritise with logic and with care in a war torn country where disunion did share a large part of  the turmoil the intricacies of life labyrinths of complexity and a frenzy of real strife … Continue reading

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Drifting

Someones silent  friend was torn and blown with gusto to the river  and then a stormy sea a journey had begun green still living, leaves and all submerged essentially once tall   now a piece broken away projecting far,  yes … Continue reading

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Silky from the vast plain

the forest and its vastness every kind of tree creating from the blue skies a resplendent canopy Below an engaging wilderness a cacophony of sound great multitudes are moving All  over the ground existence is remarkable the physical attain A … Continue reading

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Rubus 2

As a child I remember with mum and dad I liked going blackberrying under the sky its eminence reaches the hedgerows and climbs forms beautiful arches creating the rhymes The wildest of brambles Does its  own thing as wild as … Continue reading

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Wood chip madness

unconscientiousness and falsehoods insincerity the villainous and good for nothing true venality a century of  flourishing of  uprightness to the cause replaced by the  chicanery that tragically won’t pause   vast forests of  greenery air providing wealth a constancy of … Continue reading

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Dehesa (a vast landscape of unbelievable design)

A vast array of miracles a montado  so to say agro sylvo pastures an infinite display Southern and Central Spain and Southern Portugal a heavenly crafted Natural World we see Wildness at the forefront green and glowing packed with birds … Continue reading

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Holly (wood)

A tinne a bar of iron Forged deep in a fire Using holly the charcoal A chieftan would he tire God of thunder A warrior whose spirit Males intent No nobler tree In all the wood Evergreen was meant Flowers … Continue reading

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My Hazel Staff

Poetry and intuition Thats my Hazel staff An affinity with water From ancient woodland Half as olde As One Methusela Mercury its deity Its gender being masculine Ruled by the sun Where heat is free Good for wands And divining … Continue reading

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The Copper Beech healing

There is light in the branches A magic I see Reparation salvation The Copper Beech tree The salt of the earth Of virtue and grace A spangled aura owning its place On Bridgewater Road Its stands supreme So much anticipation … Continue reading

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Rowldritch acorn

What more fitting a gift Than an acorn for they Are a symbol of strength and power That The Oak Casts away That wild souls consume Like the Squirrel and Pig The Bear and the Deer Both liking to dig … Continue reading

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HOLLY

from tinder comes the Tinne the fire the pyre  the smithy who creates within his forge the heat its really what they do Holly comes from holy holier than thou it sprung from under  Christ’s feet  really that was how … Continue reading

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The Birch

Birch the silver shadowy soulful Sentinel survivor A scout that surfaces sooner Than most trees let me say It can face up to wintry wildness Being wholly versatile It grows all over the temperate zone And has done so for … Continue reading

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