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I Am a Tree
I am a tree in autumn;
For each leaf that falls,
Another week has passed;
When my branches are bare,
This life will have reached an end
And yet not in death
But rather, like the tree,
A state of suspended animation,
To be reborn in the cosmic spring,
Brightly verdant & full of energy
Fear not the winter,
For it is followed by spring
And the warmth of summer;
Energy being always conserved,
Perhaps to be transformed into variations
Of which we could scarcely have dreamt.
For each leaf that falls,
Another week has passed;
When my branches are bare,
This life will have reached an end
And yet not in death
But rather, like the tree,
A state of suspended animation,
To be reborn in the cosmic spring,
Brightly verdant & full of energy
Fear not the winter,
For it is followed by spring
And the warmth of summer;
Energy being always conserved,
Perhaps to be transformed into variations
Of which we could scarcely have dreamt.
Published 30th Nov 2021
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Anonymous
- Edited 6th Dec 2022 00:45am
30th Nov 2021 4:38pm
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30th Nov 2021 6:02pm
I put "that" in to point back to the previously mentioned 'cosmic spring'. But maybe you're right.
I don't have a keyboard at the moment, but perhaps I could come up with a guitar accompaniment. ;)
I don't have a keyboard at the moment, but perhaps I could come up with a guitar accompaniment. ;)
Anonymous
- Edited 6th Dec 2022 00:45am
30th Nov 2021 6:19pm
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30th Nov 2021 7:11pm
But then cosmic would be repeated. Hmm, I need to expand my poetic vocabulary!
Okay, a little re-editing.
Okay, a little re-editing.
Anonymous
- Edited 6th Dec 2022 00:45am
30th Nov 2021 7:23pm
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30th Nov 2021 7:59pm
Anonymous
- Edited 6th Dec 2022 00:45am
30th Nov 2021 8:04pm
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12th Dec 2021 2:39pm
it's odd that I should read this just now I was just replying to a comment on one of my poems about the possibility that our energies manifest on more than one wavelength perhaps here and in the universes...maybe without our direct knowledge... in case this is great write... welcome to DU I hope you're enjoying it here...
12th Dec 2021 3:06pm
Also coincidental is that I recently started reading a book by Deepak Chopra (Life After Death) about that very thing! I ended up not finishing it, but the idea itself is interesting. Maybe I just wasn't ready for THAT level of mysticism.
12th Dec 2021 3:33pm
I have never read him before but is often the case things ideas that are new to me have already been theorized by others before me...I had an experience once that I will never forget and know I wasn't high...I was sitting on the edge of my bed and all of a sudden I could see space in all it's glorious colors in front of my eyes then I would travel at an unbelievable rate I could feel the inertia on my body I felt it might rip me apart then I would slow and space would blossom in front of me again...I don't why experienced such a thing but I won't forget...
12th Dec 2021 3:51pm
15th Dec 2021 2:35pm
Love your personification of the tree as the entity we find ourselves to be.
