The Speaking Trees
Slender saplings sprout from sub-soil abode slowly
Tremble gently in the wake of the embracing breeze
Proliferating branches flutter like verdant wings wily
The forest flaunts the treasure of the towering trees.
Nascent leaves look up with promise to the rising sun
Draping them with patina of new exuberance rising high
For the lofty trees the sprawling luxuriant life has begun
As the lively forest raises the copious canopy to the sky.
Submerged in the turbulent sea of the maddening crowd
I perceive an emerald island emerge within lonesome me
Displacing the sound stratum of confused cacophony loud
Unattached from the anchored mind I make myself free.
In the precinct of pristine forest’s expanse I then wander
As the ascending sun bursts with colors on calm canopy
The golden beams brush the leaves with spectral splendor
In the tranquil depth of silence I’m suffused with serenity.
In the whispering wind the beguiled boughs gently quiver
Make the mystique motif with lattice of light and shade
To me the essence of ecstasy the foliage offers forever
Telling me to hold on to it until the twilight gleam fades.
An upright tree of life growing up high I aspire to be
Trying to catch the floating dreams in the drifting cloud
I hear the trees tell me make strong roots to stand firmly
Or else in strife of surging storm uprooted I’ll fall bowed.
From the cool cradle of copse I’ve a long way to carry me
With the forlorn life across the amber landscape fallow
The trees tell me to create the benign shade of empathy
In the thicket of my heart resplendent with divine halo.
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May 17, 2022
Contest : Wisdom From Trees
Sponsored by : Anoucheka Gangabissoon
Copyright © Subimal Sinha-Roy | Year Posted 2022
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