Friday 30th June 2017Ruffside Farm
I Grew to Love I grew to love that tree, Young whippersnapper http://www.paulstangroom.v1.gallereo.com/…/paul-stangroom-a… I'd like to share this painting, 'Ruffside Farm' and the first part of the poem accompanying it, written by my friend and poet, Noel Connor, for 'In the Pause of Passing.' It seems to be a poem partly about adapting to and surviving difficult times...
solitary, thick skinned,
clenching itself
to the stony ridge
behind the house,
muscling into the wall.
it defied each winter,
leaned when to bend, to lean away
when the wind demanded,
to grow slow and hard-hearted,
a gnarled knowledge
shaping to survive,
knotting itself to the landscape...
Posted on June 30th 2017 on 04:06pm
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