Leaking drips of learning

Here is a poem I wrote for the Ledbury (Festival) Poetry of The Woods.

You can find it here:

https://www.poetry-festival.co.uk/poet-of-the-woods/

The poem is also shown below:

Leaking drips of learning

It was always in the wood’s company

Birches and elders were book ends, Hazels

the arms of my favourite bench

Earthy, earthly existences subdued

by heavenly beams of amaranth. Rose-red,

feral and not forgetting

But, primed always

Showers of not knowing

In absentia

Thoughts about the why

passed between each tree like bullets

Terracotta and grey and less banal

Twins with me in the Square – with placenta

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