Ode To Trees

without them we couldn't be

…ODE TO TREES…

Trees, like people...are

More than what they show...

Much, much more than

What they let us see

They’re sentient beings

In a sense we can’t know

Uncommonly communal creatures

Are the common trees

There exists a hierarchy

Just ‘neath the Earth

Where seeds, roots and Fungi

Conspire to give birth

The rulers in this kingdom

Are tall, tattered old trees

Lightning torn and torment worn

Yet wise as they can be

In their alien (to us) wisdom

They decide who lives and survives

They provide shade and sustenance

To Saplings perilous lives

They communicate with one another

By ways of pheremones

And speak to all their Arboreal sisters and brothers

In muted, deep rooted, silent tones

It’s hard to imagine them

As more than just outsize weeds

But you couldn’t live without ‘em

Since they provide your most basic need

The very oxygen you inhale

That is so essential to your life

And without which all life would fail

Cut short by Nature’s knife

So look at trees as necessities

They provide for you  and me

And with their many awesome Autumn leaves

There is naught so beautiful on Earth (or so worthy)

…as a humble, common tree...

Author's Note

I'm turning over a new leaf

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[Tate Morgan]

If we only knew what they have witnessed?