Where The Pines Poem by jim hogg

The deer leap over the broken down wall
And a crazy dog bolts off in chase
Through the sycamores, by the distant loch
Into a gradual canvas of your face

We stood amongst those old broken down stones
And called out after the past in vain
Through the shopping malls and the midnight shores
By riverbanks and into my suitcase

I saw two rivers merge into the sea
And the sky-high pines in Shinnelwood
And all my reaching for dreams that might be
And the answer I used to think was you

We chased and chased ‘til our nights all grew cold
Up and down the old tracks through The Inch
Until all we'd reaped could not be re-sowed
And our love was a sore too worn to itch

The rustling leaves were just more false alarms
And the strangers said there was no trace
on the Seven Five among speeding cars
or round the honeysuckle scented lanes

I leapt up over a broken down wall
And a crazy love burst into flames
Where the chestnuts fall, where the pines grow tall
Where the rivers meet the breaking waves

And that crazy dog just keeps on running
And the leaping deer leaps out of sight

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