Or if they were bearberries, it could be, Rhapsody in Baloo!
SallyE
on 3/8/04 7:18 pm, Bob Cooper at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Hi Sally,
> A fine rhapsody!
> I, too, wonder if it needs a title that's more than the first line -
> Rhapsody In Blaeberry perhaps (chuckle-chuckle...).
> Bob
>
>
>> From: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: New sub: Blaeberries, and Mist II revised to The Shapes of Trees
>> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 13:34:19 +0000
>>
>>> This is the new one, with below, the revision of Mist II with thanks for
>> all
>> the ideas. Some of you probably call blaeberries bilberries.
>>
>>
>>> Let's go pick blaeberries
>>>
>>> Let's go pick blaeberries again,
>>> strong, dark, sweet blaeberries
>>>
>>> that lie in lairs
>>> as though they understand
>>> the country's dangerous.
>>>
>>> They hide dark wine-blue hue
>>> among mild red-green leaves,
>>> on slopes that stalk the sun.
>>>
>>> Let's spend an hour or so
>>> pretending we live like this
>>> always, provisioning
>>>
>>> this fruit we breakfast on,
>>> freeze down, consume as pies,
>>>
>>> juice thickened by heat,
>>> sweetened with honey.
>>>
>>> Let's go pick blaeberries, shy
>>> on high braes of July,
>>> blaeberries, earthy,
>>>
>>> Let's go pick blaeberries.
>>> Let's go seek, let's go early.
>>>
>>> Sally Evans
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The Shapes of Trees
>>>
>>> Here comes the mist,
>>> sweeping through the trees,
>>> whitening summer dawn.
>>>
>>> Shapes of poplar,
>>> chestnut, a grove of oaks
>>> succumb to its swirl.
>>>
>>> Blankness envelopes me,
>>> as this mist teases me,
>>> curled as a simile,
>>>
>>> the faint outline
>>> of each tree
>>> like one of its leaves -
>>>
>>> until it rolls away,
>>> white revealing green.
>>> Colour grows into morning.
>>>
>>> Mist of memory, from which
>>> the woodland shapes
>>> come back to me,
>>>
>>> it clings to secrets
>>> till dawn's slant sun
>>> clothes them in roselight
>>>
>>> - each branch, every tree -
>>> a drifting boundary
>>> beyond whose blind I see.
>>>
>>> Sally Evans
>>>
>>>
>
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