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In verte, it is bois a bleu,
He oranges under hang.
This must be the place to tell you what I sang?
“All the green in the wood can do a little good
for when I stand where you stood and
do what you could have done in good time, here I must sign.

Where he has signed I see red hot coals
Where you drew your lines playing flames.
Here there is the smoke in which my eyes can dwell,
unquell joy, bosky dreams and peaceful scenes all held in the fire’s glance
S S S Seeing nothing, feeling it all, in a trance,
charmed by friends, in a wood that never sends
me back home but understands when my return
will shine as fresh as when I came.

About this poem

This poem, written in May 2024 hopes through its sounds, imagery and language to share the sensory experiences of joyous travel and imagination we can feel on seeing, and then being within, fresh new places and moods for the first time. While every word poured out of instinctively, being drawn on my own family histories, memories and ways of telling, they are written to be shared, in others' minds or out loud. Like the complex, multi-layered, harmonious landscape painting they respond to, reading these words, with a human rhythm and a sense of friendship could evoke the same spirit of discovery in many personal ways to each reader.  

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Written on June 09, 2024

Submitted by BenRidley on June 09, 2024

Modified by BenRidley on June 09, 2024

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Thanks - first forays into sharing my verses - or any personal writing whatsoever, in fact. Reading poetry for a long while, one day in late winter I started writing my own too. more…

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