There are very many varied colors

Which are part of trees in summer

Yellows, pinks, greens, browns

All of them are showing around



The trunk of a huge great tree

Which grows ever wider as it sees

New visitors which come to its bark

Who do lean and then leave marks



Cut into the boughs and the trunk

Which will wind up being sunk

Deeply into the growing flower

Which is visited - by the hour



- Tristram