treesquare – Travel with Intent

Looking back at square trees

“Hidden, but there, Shadows and fair, But best of all? They were square” I’m not yet ready for the new month of squares, but I thought I’d take a look […]

-Hertfordshire

No man can make a tree (or four)

I kicked off the month of trees with the start of Kilmer’s poem about trees, and am ending with his final lines. … Poems are made by fools like me, […]

-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 […]

Square challenges

Walking the pathless woods

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, … I love not man the less, but Nature more, – from Childe Harold’s […]

-Spain

Beneath the jacaranda tree

And the wind blew through the boughs, Of the jacaranda tree. Raining purple like it still does now, – from Underneath The Jacaranda Tree by Juan Olivarez read more Bloom […]

-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 […]

-London

2B or not 2B

Said Hamlet to Ophelia, ‘I’ll do a sketch of thee, What kind of pencil shall I use, 2B or not 2B?’ – from Hamlet by Spike Milligan LISTEN here Laurence […]

-London

Rising through the fog

The wet dawn inks are doing their blue dissolve. On their blotter of fog the trees Seem a botanical drawing – from Winter Trees by Sylvia Plath read more Early […]

-Sweden

Trees along the city street

The trees along this city street, Save for the traffic and the trains, Would make a sound as thin and sweet As trees in country lanes… – from City Trees […]

-London

Among the lemon trees

The little path that winds down along the slope plunges through cane-tufts and opens suddenly into the orchard among the moss-green trunks of the lemon trees. – from The Lemon […]

-Turkey

Where dark shadows lie

Bright is the earth where the dark shadows lie, Cast by the beams of a glittering sky. Praise for the shadows when earth days are done; For the darker the […]

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