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Help please... Clematis Poem |
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Peter Gooch ![]() Newbie ![]() ![]() Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 32 |
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Hi folks can anyone shed some light on where this might have been published?
MY CLEMATIS Some fifteen years ago or more A kindly present at my door! On label, under seeds man’s name Was ‘Love from’ (whom the gift came) In paper pot, a thin dry stick No thicker than a candle wick Stood in the soil, just one bud head Assured me that it was not dead And now! The pleasure! Every year! Excitedly when spring comes near I watch the creeping trailers grow I wait when tiny budlets show Impatient for those summer days Of gentle warmth and sunlit rays Which brings the blossoms, blue and white A galaxy of pure delight Then a thousand dainty bells Are a thousand fairies weaving spells That raises the glory of a day Or waive a bout of gloom away For weeks on end the bloom is thief Of beauty from the feathered leaf That filigree of softest green So choicely set as background screen Quite suddenly, or so it seems The colours are remembered dreams Awhile the green lives on, alone Then withers back and loses tone When colder wind and cooler night Stake out their claim, of autumns right I sadly cut the growth away And make ‘all safe’ for winter’s day Remembering, I bless the name That label bore (from whom love came). This poem on a scrap of paper has been in my possession for some time and through the years I have made attempts to identify the poet or possibly author of the book it came from. All I have to go on is this: The Field. M. Baldry. 1985 |
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Peter Gooch
Thorncroft Clematis Nursery |
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