#20 My Leylandii by Colma O’ Neil

简单中文

Very pleased to have Colma O Neil’s story on a Leylandii  tree in her garden.

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Colma’s words :

My tree is not traditionally beautiful.

It does not bear fruit or colourful blooms

I have had many connections with a more romantic tree,

the apple tree from my granny’s garden that still bears her fruit ,

the aging plum tree that greeted my father, happy to be home,

No this tree albeit bland in its foliage stands tall and firm to the left

when we lay in bed, ever protective , ever strong , ever green ,

It seemed to me a portal between the past and the present ,

the other world and the new , this new home , this new world ,

this new child, that will climb its branches.

So we gave it a door , we decorated it with wares from our journey ,

stones from our land and we called our ancestors home,

my Leylandii , my every lasting life

 

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