JACARANDA TREE
JACARANDA TREE belongs to the following groups:
African Art and Photography, Dearly Departed, Fabulous Flowers, Live, Love, Dream, Skyscapes, Street Photography and Photojournalism, The Urban Environment, Travel and Adventure, Windows and Doors and WMGSpread high and wide against the noonday sun
The jacaranda tree displays its mauve foliage
All nature knows that August has finally come
Students on their way back again to college
On the ground beneath the generous tree
The old woman selling the bags of maize
Out of school children are running free
A flock of goats on the long acre graze
European man and woman on the road
How are you shouts the native child
Old man on bicycle with heavy load
Dusty clothes all worn and soiled
Coloured plumaged birds flit here and there
Darting in and out through perfumed leaves
The happy chirping is their daily prayer
The tranquil air their message receives
Windy Autumn is now about to fade away
And leave behind a flowerless silent tree
We had some pleasure if only for a day
And know that beauty can make us free
copyright 2001 Professor Nessan Ronan
Rusty Woodward...
A poem of great beauty and poignancy. I loved the final lines, ‘We had some pleasure if only for a day/And know that beauty can make us free. A joy to read!
Patrick Ronan
Thank you for all your beautiful comments.
God Bless