The Cut-Out-And-Keep Guide To Trees

the silver birch it likes to hide so as you search at eventide you find it there with many friends playing poker through the night the common oak a wise old man an aging folk since time began grandfathers of the forest they speak myth and folklore when they can the sycamore with helicopter seeds sets out its store among the weeds then grows to be big and strong from people’s picnics on which it feeds the horse chestnut is the conker tree the children’s favourite but too spikey until they are ready later on and why kids were late home for tea the yew is old and grew so slow its age is in millennia and battles from the archer’s bow the hawthorn its blossom white and at dawn as if it snowed all night then all too soon the white has gone a desperate case of bad stage fright the conifer fir, spruce and pine a regular likes mead and wine to keep it warm in winter then comes into homes at Christmas time