Well done Colin. From what seemed like a hackneyed beginning you recovered
well and didn't just do a take on Cartesian philosophy. At least it was a
tree and not a prioduct of a tree, which took you other places.
bw
James
>From: "Dewar Colin [FVPC]" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New sub (view from the desk)
>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:45:34 -0000
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>View From the Desk
>
>
>Sitting here at my desk
>how can I not know
>it is only the pine tree at the end of my garden
>that I see through the glass?
>Have I not passed it often
>as I walked along the rough path
>and given it no second thought:
>just a Norway Spruce in a bit of hard ground,
>lank and half grown, wet, not even indigenous
>and yet no matter how often I have gone unheeding by,
>beyond the window
>with no land in sight
>it is pine against blue.
>Can it be from my garden
>whence springs the treasured green?
>I dream of mountains with tree lines
>and northern snow.
>Now and from this angle
>in another land
>it seems to grow.
>
>
>
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>
>Colin
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