Question

Whole poem heritage of trees by David horsburg

Answer 1

I saw a man

Attack a tree today

The road from

Mysore

To Ooty

About twenty miles along it

There you'll see a tragic sight.

A line of noble trees 

Mutilated: branches ripped

Untimely from their trunks,

The trunks themselves

Wounded, lacerated

Some live attenuated

Cripples some

Have died : 

Their sides 

Browned by the sun 

Defy repair. 

Those noble trees 

Planted long since

By some sweet hand, some Ismail

Visveswaraya or unknown : 

Or royal patronage :

Let them come now from some

More peaceful shade

To look once more

On their life's work.

Trees for the people? 

Let all enjoy them 

Hack them cut them up 

So that the fires

That cook the village

Food 

Shall burn more hot. 

Trees are our heritage

And ash so holy. 



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