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For Silent One's Contest When Words Speak For The Silence Of Art. July 16, 2026
The Tree Of Life
Inspired by The Tree Of Life by Gustav Klimt
Life seeks stillness at the root,
craving unfolds lattice of creeping flare.
Two figures lean on the glimmer,
her eyes transfixed in chasm, his petrified,
their silence, a still violin chord
held between the creation and the end.
The tree is the bridge for them,
an aureate whisper in the emptiness,
ensnaring their world in a dream.
The void gleams with potential,
where love gilded by eternity
waits to become a memory.
In the maze captured on the canvas
life is spun from bronze boughs
where past and future entangle
within a frail frame of mistake,
but spring air drips love on leaves,
in the tree of life flowers bloom again.
A design of the human soul
weaved from golden leaf of silent yearning,
upright as a glittering bridge
between the earth we stride
and the mysteries we cannot measure
in a non-linear journey of experience.
The branches do not grow straight,
they coil on themselves in golden twists.
Perched quietly on the radiant boughs
a solitary black bird sits as a shadow
in the forest of gold -
the quiet memento of our mortality.
A mirror of the cosmos
reflects our roots in the dark soil,
yet we’re ordained to be alchemists,
make our own gold,
as we reach for the stars.
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