Roundabouts and Roses

Beauty and the beast Tina, sounds lovely; beautifully described, I can almost get the scent from here ;)

Chris ;)

Lovely Tina. I like pretty roundabouts, they really cheer me up:)

motorbike geeks..an interesting phrase.

Thanks for that, Chris;-)

Actually - said roundabout is about two miles down the road from where I live; 'One 'o One' it's called, named after the garage.

Glad I conveyed something of its 'charm' to you.

Tina ;-)

...And me, Sarah. I must admit, way back in the seventies when I first started travelling to Dubai, it always amazed me that in a country so devoid of rainfall, they had such spectacularly planted roundabouts. My favourite was one I nicknamed, 'Budgie roundabout'. For the life of me I can't remember why so I'm off to dig up my ancient photos and see if it jogs my memory.

Many thanks to you for reading.

Tina;-)

Thank you for reading, lenchenelf and you are right, 'geek' is an interesting word.

In prehistoric times I used to go out with one such 'motorbike geek' and he certainly was true to definition... 'a person who is knowledgeable and (most of all) obsessive about a certain technology'.

Bless his cotton socks;-)

Strangely at odds - the first and last verses.
"where no man dares to tread"
yet
"inviting us to stop and think – smell the roses"
I can't help but feel I'm missing something here :-)
Invited yet unable to attend ....?
and the final line
"For now at least,
in this our green and pleasant land."
What is this one all about - Tina :-). Have I missed something? :-)

Jupiter, I thank you for reading.

I think the key words here are:-

"...for those with eyes to see."

Hence, 'Invited...' and yet as you so aptly put it, '...unable to attend.'

As usual, Jupiter, you have missed nothing:-)

Tina

Lovely poem. I too struggled with the line "where no man dares to tread" until I fully realised the context - a roundabout at a busy five road intersection! "Inviting us to stop and think" conjoured an image of the traffic coming to a halt and drivers being drawn to this tiny oasis...a sudden outbreak of nature hysteria, perhaps!

Ha! Ha! Tina. Eyes to see, yet I see nothing ;-) lol

Thanks for taking the time :-)

My sincere thanks to you for reading and for indeed, stopping and thinking;-)

Tina

Dear Jupiter...as always, my pleasure;-)

Tina

new Silver-spun-sound well grated to-gether
loved it all and the names of flowers! I hardly
can re-call. where no man treads if they did
be no Roses or flowers? would there? great!
julie xx-;)

Julie, I value your words, greatly.

You have certainly got to the point of this poem as no one else has. As you quite rightly say, somebody did tread there. So many people in this life of ours do some amazing things that all too frequently get overlooked. And usually they are things we all take for granted...until one day, they are not there anymore.

Tina xx

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You know how much I love my nature/flower imagery Tina so this was right up my street! A very colourful poem!

Magic xxx

So pleased I managed to paint a lovely picture for you, Magic.

The roundabout in question is only just down the road from me and is tended so lovingly by an old gentleman I see there sometimes. He usually wears a straw hat;-)

Tina xxx