The Great and High Trees
My back to the lake
Collonades ahead of me
but only steps
do I see creeping out beneath
the great and high trees.
Families, religions, faiths,
theism and a-theism in
happy juxtaposition …
dotted here-on and there-on
across wide-lawned expanse
as they should be,
freedom to think as we wish
freedom to live
freeborn
all kinds,
no distinctions,
no prejudices
no phobias
… Picnics …
Across yonder,
Happiness!
She, he and they
play the climbing frames,
ropes, pulleys, tunnels,
ships and cars,
a world of wondrous delight
in the labyrinths of innocent
imagination …
… Kindergarten …
The Wind whispers in the Great and High Trees
A thousand leaves above me
clamouring my attention to capture
a chorus of delightful summer sound
speaking softly … even gently …
symphonic even …
Take stock.
You work well
but now rest;
you never
were the best
at pacing
yourself.
Don’t throw
everything away
by
indiscipline and over-work.
29 January 2023
All Rights Reserved
© Kenneth Thomas Webb 2023
Composed 21 September 2021
England, my England ~ summer is here. She walks with me quietly, resplendent, beautiful, and at times when I least expect it, stunning. And I am filled with hope.
The seasons, all, they walk with me. They play, they cavort, they argue and fight, and sometimes they take me to within an inch of my life. But Nature, their Creator, remains true to them all.
Humankind, on the other hand, is the vilest of all.
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
