The Penumbra

Brief Description Haslemere to Petersfield
Date 19-Jul-15
Actual Distance km 26.70
Actual Distance miles 16.60
People 7
Hours 5.33
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Forests like Cathedrals rising perpendicular

To touch the mystical Sun above our heads

Its light penetrating in patches to our feet

A sprawling viridescence of fecund biogenesis.

Lunch in a time-warp with no wi-fi or mobiles

Forced our society into eloquent conversation

Remembering many long-forgotten pleasantries 

We rested our digits, of screen-prodding sick.

Woodlands traversed, hundreds of summers old

Under the penumbra of sessile oak and alder

Sunlight and golden wheat at the forest edge

Made us forget all our discourse of philosophy.