The poetry path runs parallel with the tree trail at Warsash Common which has twelve native trees along the path and individual information sheets about each tree giving facts about ecology and botanical features, uses made of the wood and some superstitions and myths associated with them. The Poetry Path incorporates the poems written by our children on six poetry posts and two poetry trees around the site. The tree trail and poetry path form a self-guided circular walk around the Warsash Common Local Nature Reserve which is approximately 1.5km in length and can be walked all year. The walk incorporates a wide variety of different habitats which includes open grasslands, water bodies as well as wet and dry woodlands.
Details of the walk can be found at http://www.fareham.gov.uk/PDF/leisure/treetrail_print.pdf
Here is one of the poems by Harriet Whitaker, then age 11.
Mother Of Winter
The winter frost slept on the skies
above
waiting to crawl down to the crispy
grass below.
Slowly moving with the wind
the milk white frost landed.
She did it - mother of winter
slowly winding and swirling her
frozen crystalized fingers
building up blossoms of ice.
Fluffy white bits of snow climbed
down to the white winter land below.
She did it again, but this time she
whipped her nettles of hair
and made a snow kissed icicle
winding down to the endless row of
white.
But white can be worse than black -
killing rectory red roses,
turning them light grey as she passes
by
the arsenic green leaves collapsed to
the ground
and the blue skies turned white.
This is winter.
DEAL WITH IT!
