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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Travel with Intent 