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Debbie Smyth

-Cornwall

Beach tree

On scorched and conflagrated sands, In sapped and grudging desolation, The solitary Upas stands Grim sentinel of all creation. – from The Upas Tree (Анчар) by Alexander Pushkin read more […]
Beach tree

-London

Dreaming of flying away

Palm-tree: single-legged giant,  topping other trees,  peering at the firmament –  It longs to pierce the black cloud-ceiling  and fly away, away, … – from Palm Tree by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 […]