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In ancient woodlands, bluebells and wild garlic grow

Bluebells and Wild Garlic 2
Fujifil X100
Kilkenny Ireland
Landscape photography : Nigel Borrington

In Ancient Woodlands

We walked within an ancient wood
Beside the path
Where oak and beech and hazel stood,
Their leaves the pale shades of May.

By bole and bough, still black with rain,
The sunlight filtered where it would
Across a glowing, radiant stain—
We stood within a bluebell wood!

And stood and stood, both lost for words,
As all around the woodland rang
And echoed with the cries of birds
Who sang and sang …

My mind has marked that afternoon
To hoard against life’s stone and sling;
Should I go late, or I go soon,
The bluebells glow where wild garlic grows— the birds still sing.

Bluebells and Wild Garlic 1
Fujifilm X100
Kilkenny Ireland
Landscape photography : Nigel Borrington