Willow Around About
Willow Around About: Upon the cutting of a willow tree on a traffic roundabout in Hereford 2016.
The Willow weeped for the loss of her City
Proud City, rural trading City
The World and his wife had beaten a track
For the cattle, sold at auction
Bartered in pubs, paraded with pride.
Once great and powerful
Now casting the dice
Dice in a cup, a death rattle
Gambling on a future
Once the City fed the World
Now the World feeds off the City
Bolts of cloth stacked high sold cheap
Quick sale of shoddy goods,
Brick a brack for the masses
Priced by the value of dead trees
Discarded life chopped down
Sawn by men to make way for brick and tar
To make way for a brave hewn world
Willow weeped worrying where will
She be?
Who will care?
Copyright © Philip Moore | Year Posted 2017
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