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Juju
Member Elite

since 2003-12-29

Posts 3429
In your dreams

0 posted 2014-12-26 11:12 PM

Tree Rings

I too admire tree rings
Those wrinkles in density
Tell stories of droughts and growth
Though, you can't really see them
Until a tree is cut down

-Juju

-"So you found a girl
Who thinks really deep thoughts
What's so amazing about really deep thoughts " Silent all these Years, Tori Amos

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

1 posted 2014-12-27 03:00 AM

trees are living too, we almost forget, thanks

yann

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2014-12-27 11:26 AM

I suppose we could wait for the tree to die of old age, but we're too impatient for that. nice work.

~*~ When politicians give up on liberty, it falls to poets to preserve it. Or write its epitaph. ~*~

latearrival
Member Ascendant

since 2003-03-21

Posts 5499
Florida

3 posted 2014-12-27 01:17 PM

And I am Oak,
my rings are hair turned white,
spare flesh around the middle,
the extra hang of fold
in spreading branches
that hold family together.
leaves that fall as promised dreams.
Like all of life’s best laid schemes,
branches spread and old limbs creak
living is not for the weak.

Jo perry

© copyright martyjo

Redstart
Senior Member

since 2014-05-16

Posts 535

4 posted 2014-12-27 02:42 PM

How very true. The chainsaw has a lot to answer for.

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

5 posted 2014-12-28 08:01 AM

Love the way your mind works here!

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

6 posted 2014-12-29 05:43 PM

Nice piece, my friend ... much enjoyed the read.

We cut down a Pine Tree a while back - hated to do it too, but, alas it was time, safety wise --- Awesome tree - it had 86 rings at the cut 3 feet above the ground, and 2 branches 30 or 40 feet up that were a good 14 or more inches in diameter.

again, enjoyed the piece...

jimmy

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

7 posted 2015-01-04 03:23 PM

Intense, dear Juju. Indeed those tree rings are like an exposed heart that does not beat anymore. Yet it calls for a caress.

Beautiful in its melancholy.

Love,
Margherita

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

8 posted 2015-01-24 07:11 PM

nice...james

Redstart
Senior Member

since 2014-05-16

Posts 535

9 posted 2015-01-24 07:21 PM

How true. Death has nothing, if not a tale to tell.

tracie66
Member Elite

since 2000-01-18

Posts 4713
Australia

10 posted 2015-02-10 11:37 PM

wonderful post! thanks for sharing!

Love is the life of the soul...
It is the harmony of the universe
— W. E. Channing

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