Rev. Gerald Dillenbeck Poet Prose Poetry

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Inspired by Robin Wall Kimmerer's story of Franz Dolp's 40 acre reforesting his homestead with Western red cedar trees, which, if I remember correctly, have a First Nation name that translates something like "maker, or mother, or mother-maker of rich women" because of their unusual domestic commodity value when cooperatively harvested and planted.

Maker of Rich Women

A ballad for Franz Dolp

His exercise was forestry
His initiative was art.

He painted his forest in trees,
composing four seasons of song.

He searched his right balance of trees
revising rhythms for harmony's poem,
Mothers of Deep Rich Women.

A writer of therapeutic forests
written in trees with good roots.

Franz was a poet 
rebuilding with forests,
artisan trees 
forming long-healing words.

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Sharon Gulley July 11, 2017 at 12:05 PM A very lovely Prose-Poetry write Gerald, enjoyed reading it. Sharon Rev. Gerald Dillenbeck July 11, 2017 at 4:19 PM Thx so much for saying so. GD