Woodwose

Ceramic stoneware by Ann Clarkson
East Riding of Yorkshire 

Canopy ramblers keep nearby

In and out of the shadowy wood

Stealing away on twig covered leaves

Unseen in a bracken stitched hood

Immersed in the senses of forestry

Granting knowledge to wide open eyes

Alone in the beauty of natural life

Wearing wisdom’s seductive disguise

Seeing shapes and sounds of greenwood

In profusion so finely displayed

Feeling the glimpse of a tree eye to eye

Where ancients inhabit the glade