Like a night in the forest.
Hues of differing grey.
Nighttime dresses down from day
Into many shades of black,
Where star shine lacks.
The enlightened majesty
Blocked by leafy canopy,
Branch and twig crisscrossed
Brightness whitewashed
By darkness.
And in this starkness,
Lumber
Slumbers.
Deathly quiet, it seems,
There’s no life, but it teems.
Creaks and groans
Shrieks and moans.
I wonder,
Whilst I wander
Along this newly trodden path,
Through bush and grass,
The question that quickly springs to mind
How did forests thrive before humankind?
Russell Jacklin
Tue 22nd Jul 2025 16:21
I think my question was even more sarcastic as we congratulate ourselves for the forest and woodland management, and yet trees have been around for 400 million years, most of the time without us, and once we have eradicated ourselves in greenhouse gases, they will continue, then all that beauty will be lost to us as we will all be dead.😏