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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2011-02-12 01:37 AM

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A TREE?
11 February 2011

Have you ever seen a tree?

Yes, that is exactly what I said.
You have? Of course?
So,

what colour was the trunk?
Brown?
Grey?
Yellow-green?

And
how many lights and shades
of brown
or grey
or yellow-green
or other splendour on God’s palette
did the trunk
parade?

I haven’t started
on her limbs
or her natural decorations
or her shape
or her dignity
or her mood
or her wind dance
. . . yet.

I say again,
Have you ever seen a tree?

Owl

Richy
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 3050

1 posted 2011-02-12 02:31 AM

How nice to see someone else see such beauty all around us.

2islander2
Member Ascendant

since 2008-03-12

Posts 6825
by the sea

2 posted 2011-02-12 06:34 AM

hi Owl, this is a splendid poem to my eyes, one that marks the mind because of the subtle lesson it carries : LEARN TO WATCH A TREE (it inspires me an other poem right now, i am gonna write an other poem called ???? with this sentence now) Thanks for the delicious exchange.

yann

OwlSA
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since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

3 posted 2011-02-12 07:16 AM

Thank you for your lovely reply, Yann. I am looking forward to reading your new poem. I saw its title sitting there inviting me in. I am off to read it now.

Owl

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

4 posted 2011-02-12 08:08 AM

Yes, I have seen a tree, and moved on, tthe colors and breath of it lodged within my memory bank for future reference.

~ There's nothing worse than desiring more than you are desired.--Justine Cook / "Portrait" ~

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

5 posted 2011-02-12 08:12 AM

Thanks, Jerry. Glad you understand.

Owl

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

6 posted 2011-02-12 01:30 PM

well 'penned' ... well said!

                            Trees

            I THINK that I shall never see
            A poem lovely as a tree.

            A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
            Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;

            A tree that looks at God all day,
            And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

            A tree that may in Summer wear
            A nest of robins in her hair;

            Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
            Who intimately lives with rain.

            Poems are made by fools like me,
            But only God can make a tree.

                      --- Joyce Kilmer

Spiros Zafiris
Senior Member

since 2002-10-20

Posts 982
Canada

7 posted 2011-02-12 05:51 PM

..Owl, i love tree poems..and this one was a treat..!

..spiros
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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

8 posted 2011-02-13 03:39 AM

Thank you, Bruce. I enjoyed very much Joyce Kilmer’s twist on the original, called, I think something like "Loveliest of Trees".

Thank you, Spiros, for your kind words.

Owl

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

9 posted 2011-02-16 07:53 PM

Thank you, Richy. I am glad you do too.

Owl

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