The Trees Tell Me
...Trees have never talked before
no one has ever heard tree thoughts.
As plants evolved, so did trees;
trillions and trillions appeared,
half gone now, down to three trillion.
Trees send signals t...
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Categories:
simard, earth, memory, native american,
Form: Free verse
Mother Tree Stewardship
...A Blue Jay flew squawking into a crown
alerting all the other birds around
News of coming danger ran through the stand
down to the floor and across all the land
The Mother Tree signaled through t...
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Categories:
simard, earth, environment, mother, sun,
Form: Couplet
Spirits In the Wood
...Standing all alone in the woods;
eyes shut, I feel the lilting light.
Sun dodges needles through the crown,
beams land on my skin softly so.
Brisk breezes quicken and rustle.
Bristlecone pines e...
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Categories:
simard, death, earth, fantasy, sin,
Form: Free verse