foto©robcullen15092020. A Red Oak standing in Ynsangharad Peoples War Memorial Park, Pontypridd, Wales.

Sitting under a tree in Autumn

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Four late hot days, heat starts to rise

early morning while I’m out walking.

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I like sitting in the shade of a Red Oak,

a young tree hardly grown but tall,

and will still be growing many years

after I have left this earth and its troubles.

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The leaves still green have lost their vigour,

in a few weeks they’ll fall, a blaze of red,

dry and clattering at the barest touch of a breeze

I think there’s a beauty in the bare tree.

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when the leaves have fallen they’ll lie

covering the roots, to feed the waiting soil.

A light rain falling, the leaves sheen returns,

for just awhile, for just a day or two longer.

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©robcullen15092020.

foto©robcullen22092020. The beginning of the walk into the woods.

I like sitting in the Ynysangharad Peoples War Memorial Park — originally it was the gardens of a large private house…