THE YAFFLING TREE BY PHILLIP BOWEN

 THE YAFFLING TREE - PHILIP HUGH BOWEN

AUTHOR INTRODUCTION

NAME                  :   Philip hugh Bowen

BORN                   :   1949, Liverpool, England

NATIONALITY   :   British

OCCUPATION     :   Poet, Playwright, Performer, Teacher, Biographer

WORKS                :

   

     POETRY 

• That was peter glaze(1993)
• The Professor's Boots(1994)
• Jewels & binoculars(1994)
• Things we said Today(1995)
• Variety's Hammer(1997)
• Starfly(2004)
• Nowhere's far, new and selected poems(1990-2009)

     PROSE

•  A gallery to play to-the story of the Mersey poets(1998)

      PLAYS

•  A handful of Rain(1999-2002)
•  The same Boat(2003-2004)
•  The other side of the words(2004)
•  Chimney kids(2004)
•  Anything But love(2007)
•  Plarlez vous jig jig(2004)
•  A case of the poets(2006)

TEXT OF THE POEM:

There's birds and birds

In the yaffling tree

All the kinds of words

In the yaffling tree

There's crows and crows

In the yaffling tree

It kind of grows

The yaffling tree

It branches spread 

The yaffling tree

From the hands to the head 

Of the yaffling tree

Last year is dead

Says the yaffling tree 

Its in its bed

Says the yaffling tree

So think again

Says the yaffling tree

I said again

Says the yaffling tree

So count to ten

Says the yaffling tree

Amen Amen

Says the yaffling tree

SUMMARY OF THE POEM:

The poem states about yaffling tree which spreads all over world which is fictional. The yaffling tree kind a speaks as it is in fantasy world of Children. The yaffling tree says that last year is gone. The yaffling tree spread its branches and boughs all over the place. It roots implanted in the soil. But in the first line the poet says there is every kind of  bird in the branches. There is also a crow in the yaffling tree which is the only bird the author mentioned. And we should remind it is something beyond our imagination.