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Question: Can you see what I saw in the Forest of Dean!?
View from a Window
Forest of Dean (free-form)
Picture if you can
My brother's familiar foreground view -
Two rickety wooden chairs,
And a weather-tormented table
Topped by two gargoyle pixies
Playing stone chess in the sun!.
Raise your eyes,
To the horizon
See distant massed green bushes, trees
Jostling for space on the hill-tops, and
Then, espy, half-hidden,
a Grimm's Fairy Tale Cottage
Of weathered Cotswold stone!.
It nestles close to variegated fields
of fallow green,
ploughed brown,
and rape-seeded canary yellow,
Yet chooses to sit cheek by jowl
With a dark, secluded,
seemingly threatening, wood!.
Blue skies above are placid,
Scattered with cotton-wool clouds
And the streaked path of a passing plane!.
Journeying in search of a foreign shore
And the warmth of an alien sun!.
Return your glance to the earthly view!.
Medieval, solid, rooted and unchanging -
So English, so eternal and so perfectly serene!.
Constable would have had no problem
Showing you what I mean!.
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Now it is my turn to be gob struck! I think I could paint this scene
just from your description! "Weather-tortured" I may steal!
There is a feeling of great familiarity, though I have never been to England,
though more than half of my genes originated there!.!.!.the body's memory perhaps, being awakened at the sub-cellular level!. Thank you so much!Www@QuestionHome@Com
Cast not thine eyes
to follow the deserter Plane
but root them fast to hallowed ground
and the landscapes of the partially sane
;?)Www@QuestionHome@Com
I have no doubt the church clock stands at ten to three!.!.!.and there is honey still for tea!.
Rupert would have enjoyed this one Grannyjill!. Constable too!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
You gave me the Kodak moment here!. Well said!. Weather weathered table!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
This reminds me of a road trip from Newcastle to Edinburgh!.!.!.!. perfectly !.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Very descriptive!. I saw it with you!.
Some day, I MUST walk through a forest!Www@QuestionHome@Com
Yes, though never seen with my own eyes, I've seen it now through yours!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Sounds like my brother's yard!. I'll have to get him to read this!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Many years ago I was walking in the woods in Mississippi(might be called a forest in some places, since it covered about 10,000 acres) and I walked up on a small cottage!. The roof had long since collapsed, but the walls still stood!. Empty holes where door and windows had once been!. The walls were stone, stacked up, with what looked like a mud based mortar packed between the stones!. My mind imagined all types of scenarios, and the place had obviously been empty for a long time!. There was also a place about 2 or 3 acres in size where the trees were smaller than the rest!. I found out later that an old man named Hiram had farmed that land in the early 1800's and had built the cottage, not to live in, but as a shrine to his memory of his boyhood in Scotland!. He had, I was told used it as a tool shed for his farming tools!. The rocks used to build it were picked out of his fields and saved for the cottage shrine!. When he died, he had no heirs, and the whole thing started reverting back to nature!. The only thing remaining is the stone walls, and I will remember the view as long as I breathe!. Thank you for this memory to add to my own!.Www@QuestionHome@Com