Captive Tree.(Newley Completed Poem). Poem with Picture.

Captive tree

With outstretched branches

Desperately Pleading

                              Pleading

Pleading 

To be set free from the manicured park

Back into wild 

                         wild

                                  woods

Far from the curfew gates

And the rows of tidy houses.

But passers by don`t see her gestures

Nor heed the calls of her still quiet voice

Uplifted on the wind.

Her stillness means she is just a thing,

An object to be climbed, 

An ornament to be looked at,

Or chisel an obscenity into.

Trevor John Karsavin Potter.  

28th. February - 2nd. March 2023.