thanks, L, and P.
Given the bad things happening elsewhere, I am surprised a mere storm in my vicinity should be on your news.
But take a look at this:
http://www.acclaimmag.com/lifestyle/melbourne-bar-ponyfish-island-gets-submerged-yarra-river-day-bullshit-weather/
Only the other day I tottered down the stairs from bridge to bar at water level, never thinking it would soon flood.
Ponyfish island - something about the very name to put in my light verse in one day.
Max in Melbourne.
On 25 Jun 2014, at 7:22 pm, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Max best of luck with the Linden watching -they didn't get blown away in
> your storms???
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Max Richards
> Sent: 25 June 2014 09:53
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> Subject: 'Saplings' corrected
>
> Saplings
>
> In the park this winter morning
> tall saplings in pots waiting,
> two gardeners digging holes.
>
> The young one I congratulate -
> 'Good to see a machine isn't
> doing this work for you - yet.'
>
> He grins, leans on his shovel,
> or is it a spade? 'How many?'
> 'Five we're planting here, ten there.'
>
> I read the label - Tilia
> cordata - 'new to me', I say.
> Then the fine print - it's a Linden.
>
> Yellow-green flowers in spring -
> autumn deciduous. Linden
> I claim to know, at least know of.
>
> Didn't Grinling Gibbons carve
> flowers leaves and fruit from linden? -
> that never fade, wither or fall.
>
> How fast does it grow? how tall?
> 'Seven metres', I read out. 'Ah,
> I shan't live to see them that tall.'
>
> He smiles - 'you never know, never know.'
> Spring flowerings? - a few - maybe,
> you never know.=
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