I read a fascinating article a few weeks ago that at first glance makes you think “no way!” or “these people are nuts!”
But then, I thought about it.
Sometimes if you open your mind just a little, a greater understanding of the world can settle into your spirit, expanding your mind, your heart, your human experience.
Imagine the trees communicate with each other. It is not so far-fetched.
An article in Smithsonian Magazine (yes, Smithsonian!!) entitled Do Trees Talk to Each Other discusses the admittedly controversial work of German forester Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate.
The article is absorbing. I read it weeks ago, but the concepts moved and inspired me. I look at the trees now with even more awestruck wonder. I gathered this inspiration, this new perspective, and wrote this lovely poem…
(Published in Lit Up, 2K claps, 200 views, curated in POETRY)
The Wisdom of Trees
I stand in awe of the wisdom of trees.
Strong, silent, clinging to the earth
in symbiotic hug, not much unlike
the amniotic lifeline that brought us here.
A skirt of oak-crackle piles, wind-stirred so,
rustles the song of winter coming, abscission
that came with the cold. I’ll not shed joy here
like skin, peeled back and sloughed away.
I’ll wrap in leaves, tall like trees.
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