Scenes of a Careless Childhood Recited

SCENES OF A CARELESS BOYHOOD The sound of water,escaping dams willows,old rotten planks,slimy posts,brickwork,old timber props wet ditches,sedges and silvery nets towpaths without gates,horses that tow barges collared with crimson fringe. Wheat and thatched cottages and cornstacks grasses in flower,bogrush bulrush and teazle,so tall.Bindweed,wild carrot, hemlock in bloom,cow parsley,plantain bramble in June. Poppy,thistle mallow and hop.Purple heath,hills and swift running streams,true clear freah and brisk as champagne about to pop. phrasis form ( From Constable letters to Rev John Fisher) *A Phrasis is a structured verse where the poet uses selected prose phrases of another writer’s(not a poet) to compile unique poetry therefrom as a tribute thereto,the word phrasis is Greek for phrase. Listen to me read this phrasis of mine on youtube under the name ichthys