Thursday 6 December 2012

Yew Tree

I've been reading about the association between Pagans and Yew trees (amongst others). Interesting stuff!!






Yew Tree 

I planted it 
the night you left, 
gathered soil 
sticky
wet
in both my hands 
to form a mound,
pushed the seed 
gently
down.
Eventually
it sprouted,
grew
towards the light.
This tree is
Yew.

3 comments:

  1. I love all the stories that go with yew trees - we have some fairly ancient ones in churchyards near us. I think the oldest one I've ever seen was the Fortingall Yew - just looked it up, the joys of the internet - hadn't realised it's probably Europe's oldest tree - http://www.historicbritain.com/vendor/fortingallyew.aspx

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  2. They do seem to be magical - thanks for a wonderful poem! I enjoyed your others for today as well.

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  3. I notice you have used my photo http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/240147 without proper credit. I published the photo under this Creative Commons licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
    please add Photo © Penny Mayes (cc-by-sa/2.0)

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