Poems for trees

[Taikunping avatar ~ Julie Parry]

link to tree pictures

Mirrored Images

Our trees wore skirts, upstanding skirts

that looked as if they were floating on water

mirrored skirts , skirts trimmed in blancmange green

pleated skirts, made from natures greening and glorious love

At low water those skirts seemed to grow longer, serene skirts

no seamstress in this land could have crafted skirts as these

no thread could have held wonder together like water

a cool translucent water, a green misty water 

Julie

Feb 2024

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On Earth as it is in heaven

each a petal of the largest heart

sanctioned by love to never depart

each flower on earth in human form

love is natural, love is warm

red roots dig deep

they fire the earth

when man stands firm

all nature births

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Tai

Sept 2015

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The Thriving Line

There is a line between two boundaries 

one being natural, one man made

one with barbs, one with boughs

each made from the Greening Time

each hewn in Creation's name

I know the shelter of that space

where energy meets and surrenders to green

it is the place where dandelion clocks

tell the time... how do they know how they do that

our breath makes the leap as we apply ourselves to action

 we are all in that sacred act of creation

as our drum hearts meet and we engender mass

Tai

March 2015

edited Feb 2024

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picture I made when I used to have photoshop... had such fun making images from my photos... feeing nostalgic looking back, it surprises me because I can't remember having made some of them.

Catch the feeling

Can you see the little white figure?

hiding behind the trees

 caught in recollection

 cool magic of the breeze

Dancing leaves atop of grasses

they fell from up above

meandering in a feeling

that lifts and soothes with love

Faeries in the woodlands

 quiet don’t make a sound

their gifts are in the silence

a hush is all around

 ~0~

 Feb 2014

edited Feb 2024

poem and image

Tai

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Each of the other

One looked one way

one looked the other

one with eyes closed

a sister....a mother?

the moon circled round

the tree raised her roots

the pomegranate glistened

it sent out its shoot

each life is for living

even when it ends

take the fruit of the moment

the fruit with no end

~0~

Tai

September 2015

[ënagualí~ᏉL𝐀ᗪἇ ኔጡ።]

I love nothing more than doing energy alchemy and qi-gong with the trees,they also give me gifts,like last night I was in my garden doing a bit of weeding maintenance before the rains came crashing down & I found in amongst my sword Ferns these massive round fruity hairy balls under them,like small watery potatoes and the plant it said to me to eat them - cos I'm always looking for wild things to eat,..I then googled it first just in case and found yeah you can eat them..so I'm gonna munch away,cos there is heaps of them.

I just have to get past the hairs & skin stuck in my teeth lol

...but I found this post brings it all home,..trees are our friends for sure fuzzy fruit n all..where would we be without them..

[Taikunping avatar ~ Julie Parry]

Yes it's great being out in nature and doing qi-gong with the trees, yoga on the lawn.   what kinda taste...mmmm yum! 

[ënagualí~ᏉL𝐀ᗪἇ ኔጡ።]

I have to be honest I didn't like em, they just tasted like water and earth no real other flavour of their own,and the hairs put me off slightly lol,like I gave up eating dirt when I was a kid you know....but hey I had to try something new,tis just me being me..novelty foraging as you do....nah I like things with some kind of real flavour to them at least..so they will stay in the garden..

[Taikunping avatar ~ Julie Parry]

mmm don't think they're a good idea then Vlada

[ënagualí~ᏉL𝐀ᗪἇ ኔጡ።]

Hmm no I dont think so either hahhahah,well least I'm still alive though,they said they wernt toxic they were telling the truth......Oh maybe I should have baked them and added some salt or spices or put them in a stew or something,would be hard to peel the hairs off them though, nah pass on them cant be bothered now lol..