A poem for walking with trees.

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Open Poetry #16

A poem for walking with trees.

Kevin Taylor
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since 1999-12-23

Posts 185
near Vancouver, BC, Canada

0 posted 2001-10-30 10:39 PM

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Let me rest amongst these lichened souls that
stand where trees once stood,

My greens break into blacky-blues and dragonflies
and the sounds of beetle truths remind me of the rings I grew.

Let me rest amongst the salmonberry and the tumblewood
of cotton, ash and hemlock, fir and cedar.

And let the wind stir of pine above the fall
rewaken me in sapling dress and new reach.

Kevin

"Poetry is, at once, what you get... and how you get there."

[This message has been edited by kevintaylor (edited 10-31-2001).]

Nightshade

Member Patricius

since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

1 posted 2001-10-30 10:43 PM

kevin - very well written, very nice. Chris

Life is not measured by breaths you take, but by moments that take your breath away.

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

2 posted 2001-10-30 11:46 PM

Why you great big tree hugger you! I really liked this unusual POV. Not sappy either.

Krawdad
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since 2001-01-03

Posts 2597

3 posted 2001-10-31 02:23 PM

Like this a bunch, Kevin.
Do some more.

"As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it." Wendell Berry

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

4 posted 2001-10-31 04:51 PM

Kevin~
I am enjoying your versatility~

'And let the wind stir of pine above the fall
rewaken me in sapling dress and new reach.'

Beautiful thoughts~
*Hugs*
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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Elizabeth

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since 1999-06-07

Posts 6871
Minnesota

5 posted 2001-10-31 05:57 PM

There is a lot of gorgeous imagery in here.

God bless America, my home sweet home.

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