The Trees
by bwlchmawr
The Trees
The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.
Is it that they are born again
And we grow old? No, they die too.
Their yearly trick of looking new
Is written down in rings of grain.
Yet still the unresting castles thresh
In fullgrown thickness every May.
Last year is dead, they seem to say,
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.
Philip Larkin
The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.
Is it that they are born again
And we grow old? No, they die too.
Their yearly trick of looking new
Is written down in rings of grain.
Yet still the unresting castles thresh
In fullgrown thickness every May.
Last year is dead, they seem to say,
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.
Philip Larkin
Uploaded19/03/2015 - 18:43
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Posted 19/03/2015 - 23:41
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Not quite perfect .... it just needs a blackbird, singing.
Posted 20/03/2015 - 00:51
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A good crisp landscape, declaring a hint of things to come!
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Posted 20/03/2015 - 04:23
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This scene presents an uncanny curviness that is quite alluring. Great optically!
Also a lovely poem to illuminate the visual.
Also a lovely poem to illuminate the visual.
Cheers...Donna 😊
Posted 20/03/2015 - 07:13
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Wildwood512 wrote:
This scene presents an uncanny curviness that is quite alluring. Great optically!
Also a lovely poem to illuminate the visual.
The disused trackbed of the narrow gauge Lynton & Barnstaple Railway, high on Exmoor.
This scene presents an uncanny curviness that is quite alluring. Great optically!
Also a lovely poem to illuminate the visual.
Best wishes,
Andrew
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Andrew
"These places mean something and it's the job of a photographer to figure-out what the hell it is."
Robert Adams
"The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE."
Ernst Hass
My website: http://www.ephotozine.com/user/bwlchmawr-199050
http://s927.photobucket.com/home/ADC3440/index
https://www.flickr.com/photos/78898196@N05
Posted 20/03/2015 - 22:27
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x 2 - the buds are budding lovely greens - t
Photon wrote:
A good crisp landscape, declaring a hint of things to come!
A good crisp landscape, declaring a hint of things to come!
"It's not what you look at that's important, it's what you see" - Thoreau
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