Old apple tree

By Colin Ian Jeffery

PROMPT—Peace ...

There is an apple tree

At the bottom of the garden

Where my brother and I once played

Swinging on branches

Climbing high and low.

Tree stood a century

Giving September crop of apples

Now in my old age a shrine

With memories of childhood.

There is an apple tree

Where I often go and sit beneath

And if I listen very hard

I hear my brother’s happy cries

As we climbed high and low.

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Colin Ian Jeffery is an English poet of the modernist movement with development of imagism stressing clarity, precision and economy of language. He has a strong reaction against war, tyranny and oppression of truth and innocence, but unlike other poets in the modernism movement like Dylan Thomas and Ezra Pound, he has a profound faith in God. Colin writes from Caterham, England.