All through the sapling days
Of dark and dappling haze
You stretched for skies
Of perfect blue
Up to refracted rays
All through protracted days
You reached for highs
And so you grew
Until you broke the night
At last unyoked the light
Like living prose
You stood so tall
Until the gale’s grey might
Ripped through your sail’s green height
And as you rose
So did you fall
Wayne Visser © 2008
Book
Wishing Leaves: Favourite Nature Poems
This creative collection, now in its 3rd edition, brings together nature poems by Wayne Visser, celebrating the diversity, beauty and ever-changing moods of our planet. The anthology includes many old favourites like “I Think I Was a Tree Once” and “A Bug’s Life”, as well as brand new poems like “Monet’s Dream” and “The Environmentalist”. Then as we turned our faces to the moon / Our hands entwined, our hearts in sync, in tune / We felt the fingers of the silken breeze / And made our wishes on the falling leaves / A gust of wind set off a whispered sigh / Among the trees that leaned against the sky. Buy the paper book / Buy the e-book.
