Re-post : Rain Trees, Bedok South

I have been very busy lately, so I guess I will just do a re-post (old excuse!), a work I posted in this blog in 2006.

I like the nature poem and photo that blogger/poet S. L. Corsua posted in her blog recently. I hope she will enjoy this poem. :)


pencil drawing by dsnake1



Rain Trees, Bedok South



I have passed this road
     countless times,
where the rain trees stood
like ancient sentinels,
walked in the shadows
of their giant arms,

but have not seen
them
     flower
         like this,

splashes of pink
lacing their leaves,
as painted by Matisse.
all these years
they brooded

and today
finally
     they
         smiled.


13.3.06

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The image is a scan of a pencil drawing of a Rain Tree at the Botanic Gardens, Singapore.

My office is at a place called Bedok South. An avenue lined with ancient rain trees leads to my workplace.

Image and poem © cheong lee san ( dsnake1 ).