Where Trees and Words combine

[Xerxses]

Yeah, i thought so too.

 

Think I may have a play, and write a few bits on left stumps and cheeses here and there.

 

 

Maybe put something like " if you can read this you're too close to this tree & probably contributed to the compaction that killed it's neighbour"

 

 

Now where's me dremmel..........

 

 

 

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:lol: Class!!!

 

That is a very fine idea, wonder if that should be my next art project.... Make our preservation areas bit more informative and inscrutable (? Is that correct or do I mean arcane... hm...) Exposing wood and tell people whats eating the tree...

[Xerxses]

Yeah, i thought so too.

 

Think I may have a play, and write a few bits on left stumps and cheeses here and there.

 

 

Maybe put something like " if you can read this you're too close to this tree & probably contributed to the compaction that killed it's neighbour"

 

 

Now where's me dremmel..........

 

 

 

.

 

:lol: Class!!!

 

That is a very fine idea, wonder if that should be my next art project.... Make our preservation areas bit more informative and inscrutable (? Is that correct or do I mean arcane... hm...) Exposing wood and tell people whats eating the tree...

[Xerxses]

Yeah, i thought so too.

 

Think I may have a play, and write a few bits on left stumps and cheeses here and there.

 

 

Maybe put something like " if you can read this you're too close to this tree & probably contributed to the compaction that killed it's neighbour"

 

 

Now where's me dremmel..........

 

 

 

.

 

:lol: Class!!!

 

That is a very fine idea, wonder if that should be my next art project.... Make our preservation areas bit more informative and inscrutable (? Is that correct or do I mean arcane... hm...) Exposing wood and tell people whats eating the tree...

[David Humphries]

Ten tall oak trees

 

"Ten tall oak trees

Standing in a line,

‘Warships’ cried king Henry,

Then there were nine.

 

Nine tall oak trees

Growing strong and strait,

‘Charcoal’ breathed the furnace,

Then there were eight.

 

Eight tall oak trees

Reaching towards heaven,

‘Sizzle’ spoke the lightening,

Then there were seven.

 

Seven tall oak trees

Branches leaves and sticks,

‘Firewood’ smiled the merchant,

Then there were six.

 

Six tall oak trees

Glad to be alive,

‘Barrels’ boomed the brewery,

Then there were five.

 

Five tall oak trees

Suddenly a roar,

‘Gangway’ screamed the bypass,

Then there were four.

 

Four tall oak trees

Sighing like the sea,

‘Floorboards’ beamed the builder,

Then there were Three.

 

Three tall oak trees

Groaning as trees do,

‘Unsafe’ claimed the council,

Then there were two.

 

Two tall oak trees

Spreading in the sun,

‘Progress’ snarled the bypass,

Then there was one.

 

One tall oak tree

Wishing it could run,

‘Nuisance’ grumped the farmer,

Then there was none.

 

No tall oak trees,

Search the fields in vain,

Only empty skylines,

And the cold, grey, rain."

 

 

Richard Edwards

 

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[geoff]

Very nice quotation David, simple, nicely written & provocatively powerful.

[daltontrees]

I've copied that poem and printed it off for my office wall.

[daltontrees]

Sort of reminds me of the Ogden Nash poem, inspired initially by Wordsworth but making a perhaps more useful point. I am quoting from memory, apologies in advance for any mistakes.

 

I think that I will never see

A billboard lovely as a tree

Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,

I will never see a tree at all.