Of all I’ve seen waiting to be discovered
By Mark Heathcote
Sun, 05 Aug 2012
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A spring of buttercups, when was that now
I saw in green pastures a golden jersey cow
A river meandering swift-lashing and lush
Where blue tit nest on passing, fell hush.
When their shells scattered pieces of sky
Plucked treasured depths in a child's eye
When did I last see a fire poker-toadstool?
Its fiery globule head in a green whirlpool.
Radiant-light brims over a cherry-bark moth
Is he not both moth and tree - life's froth?
Of all I've seen waiting to be discovered
The tench bubbles breaking, I savored.
The nervous vole nosing silence ordinate!
Up through the willow trees rooted garret.
These and other, things, I've remembered
A boy by the river I once wildly proffered.
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So much change with our
So much change with our neglect, but, in some places and with a lot of work conservation is getting through and the riverbanks are slowly returning. I just wonder how many species are gone forever. Lovely poem.
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