Wednesday 21 November 2018

The old Brunswick Square plane tree


You must go and see
the old Brunswick Square plane tree

It's like three different tree-souls
have got together for a dance

You must go and see
the old Brunswick Square plane tree

lithe joyful serpent-like branches
swooping down low
then up away to the top of the sky

You must go and see
the old Brunswick Square plane tree

Gnarled, majestic, breathing in and out
sheltering us under a mellow mystical
canopy of joyful green
and orange and brown and bare

Take it from me
you must go and see
the old Brunswick Square plane tree

Its gigantic elephant-foot of a trunk
gracefully bouncing off the seasons with dappled
time in the rustling wind nonchalance
leaves nothing to the imagination

There's nothing plain about 
the old Brunswick Square plane tree
You must go and see
the old Brunswick Square plane tree