Tree

[creativesoul]

Tree is a friend of mine
We play with fire

Once a man held me up
So I could pick an apple

Breezes from the sea
A row of trees and me

The grass is greener on the other side
The yellow flowers too many to count
Fascinated I am

The dog needs a walk
I go along to supervise


That’s funny

Slept on the ground
During ceremonies
I was not afraid then

I was a warrior princess divorced and filled with
All the things I’m going to go now
That I could not before

I was wanting to mention Janis Joplin
Me and Bobby Magee
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose…

Bless her heart
My teenager still wants to be her ( me12)

At that tree - at some of those ceremonies
The heart opens wide into the sky
Prayers come and go
For days
So many of those sacred prayers were answered
Grandchildren
I future generations
Old hippies like me
Watch carefully what we say around the trees

[saw]

nice jaunt thru a life from past to present
your observations are valid.....keep getting it down
like sleeping on the ground, you can hear the buffalo
miles away

[mnaz]

Yes, careful what you say ... "Too many to count..." I remember, I once tried to count the uncountable number of folds in a desert hillside. I was fascinated-- by an ordinary hillside!...

[mnaz]

Speaking of trees, are you anywhere near Alerce Costero National Park? I saw this today:

In Chile's Alerce Costero National Park, there is a very big, very old tree. Alerce trees don't live fast and die young. They grow extremely slowly and live for a long, long time. As first reported in Science, Jonathan Barichivich says that the Alerce Milenario is the oldest tree of all: likely at least 5,000 years old, just after we entered the Bronze Age. That's a lot older than the previous record holder, an eastern Californian bristlecone pine thought to be 4,853 years old.

(Emphasis mine.) Wow. 5,000 years old! Incredible. I remember hiking thru 4,000+ year old bristlecone pines on Wheeler Peak in Great Basin National Park. That ... was an amazing experience ...

[creativesoul]

I will make a point of going there ! Thank you

[mnaz]

Please send pictures if you go.

[creativesoul]

I googled it. I have a driver. I’m not sure if I can go until it warms up a bit.. but it’s at the top of the list- what an unusual tree

[creativesoul]

I will