I’m lost in worlds of mind and memory
Of people gone and problems that devour
When Nature calls out with her yields, her plea.
My eye is turned without and what I see
Is food for senses numbed by Men of Power.
I leave the world of mind and memory
Is anything as alluring as a tree
When sun leaps through transparent leafy tower?
Good Nature holds out generous, haunting pleas
We make a whole from visions fragmentary.
The truth is richer, fiercer, even rawer
So leave the worlds of mind and memory
I see the woods, once Tudor hunting fields,
Where Anne Boleyn’s young daughter showed her power,
Though motherless by father’s cruel decree.
Rain and sun, oh, watercolour free!
The celandine haunts with its golden flower
Once lingering at the edge of how, maybe.
Now Nature draws me in with earthy plea
