Graham Foster Poet
Poems And Reflections
Welcome to my website, where I will try to show some of my writing as an ongoing adventure, before they get printed in my next collection of poems. Here is a newly written poem, with the picture that inspired it.
It is first draft, is the transition of focus too sudden, too obscure? I may revisit it or leave it... what do you think?
Does this picture inspire you to write a poem? Send it in if you do!
Mighty Dead Trees
Standing majestic against the sky.
These are empty hands held aloft,
Symbols of life that’s run its course,
And though their colours no longer waft
In breezes carrying birdsong from the nests,
Do not dismiss them to their decay,
But think of the impact on the landscape,
Shelters they provided in their heyday.
Will the places you have walked
Remember the weight of your feet?
Will the lives of those around you
Care when your journey is complete?
©Graham Foster February 2023
