101 Exiles


The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.

Is it that they are born again
And we grow old? No, they die too,
Their yearly trick of looking new
Is written down in rings of grain.

Yet still the unresting castles thresh
In fullgrown thickness every May.
Last year is dead, they seem to say,
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.

What is 101 Exiles?

“101 Exiles” is a Ceylon Press "Poetry From The Jungle" podcast that brings together the great poems from the world’s best poets – albeit ones that just failed to make the Top 100 list.