And a kind of neat update of the dialogue poem, Max.
Doug
On Jun 25, 2014, at 7:45 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> that's rather fine, Max
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> On 25 June 2014 09:27, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> 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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Douglas Barbour
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Something else is out there
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And I want to hear it
C.D.Wright
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