Trees...you have done it again...

Trees

you have done it again

amazed me with your resilience

enthralled me with your unrelenting

stoicism against the elements

and lived to tell of it

in your own way

with your stiff upper lips

and haughty postures making

even your ancient bent backs

works of art

you tell of this storm or that

of winds wild enough

to blow roofs off

and hats

turn parasols

wrong side out

much

to the dismay of those who

mistakenly persist

in defying you

fools not to see

how you survived

another winter scourge

how silly of them

not to hear your deep wisdoms

your sap coursing

your buds groaning

your words

that they mistake for

creakings and bark splittings

and rustlings as though

desiccated old

oak leaves had nothing

left to say


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Trees...you have tales to tell...

Trees

you have tales to tell

histories locked in your rings

tight and unreachable

but by the sawyer's cut

when the years spill out

as so much sap

and secrets

years of strife

sadness strivings

uncertain ages

and misgivings

lamentations over losses

celebrations of victories

and ages of uncertainty

locked away

in your layers

of bark safe

until the first glint

of metal on flesh

your innards

show us time

compressed into narrow spaces

thin green skins

that knew sunlight

for only a year

before night fell forever

and we count them

run our fingers across them

and marvel that

you were there

when it all happened

and yet said not a word

but were

resigned waiting

for a hand

that bore a pen

or an axe






















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