04/07/2024
These beautiful Scribbly Gums shelter the western side of our house and are our favourite section of the garden. I found a cute little poem recently by a poet called Douglas Stewart about Scribbly Gums and I really like this theory about where the patterns come from…am sharing below 🧡
Scribbly Gum by Douglas Stewart
A child might think
The fairies have come
And scribbled in play
On the scribbly gum
But we say, no;
Burrowing and biting
It’s some small insect
Has done this writing
And yet as though
Wild honey dripped
Down the white tree
To shape the script,
The creature makes
Such clear gold words
Of rock and bush
And leaves and birds
And its own strange life
As it writes on bark
Like poetry dancing
Out of the dark,
Perhaps after all
The thick white wood
Does hide a fairy
Or just as good
📷.digital
