The treetop bowed with every breeze or shift of her weight.
Safe.
Here’s some great news – I’m moving back there! Not to the house that is right next to you, but very nearby, near enough for me to visit you regularly. I will stand under your branches again my dear friend, and re-imagine the joy and sense of safety you gave me way back when.
I love this owasco. Trees are such important companions to us when we're children, at least I have a few woody friends who used to hold me safe in their bows as I clambered around like a monkey 😂
I might have to have a go at this challenge riverflows has set up 🌳
Oh yes! Poetry is also accepted, and video. I hope you do!
Oh yes do!
Raj!!! how good to see you here! Are you recently returned, or have I missed?
I typed a long reply that mysteriously vanished before I could hit "post," and even "control + z" will not restore it.
So.... I love your poems and your communing with trees, @owasco, and am reminded of a Carl Sagan book which explained the universal falling-dream dates back to our ancestors who slept in trees. (I always hated the rock-a-bye baby song with the bough breaking, "and down will come baby, cradle and all").
After the epic storm of 2020 and the vast area (how many square miles??) losing more than half of our mature trees, I have great respect for the ones that didn't fall, and am ever mystified at how one sturdy, mighty oak toppled, while another held firm.
The pines - hardly any of them remain. Those that do are battered.
You get to move back to a place where after all these years and milestones, the tree of your childhood still stands (you've verified this, right?) - that's so cool! Only this week, a pine tree from my childhood went down in a storm. (It's in that post about my mom losing power and finishing the canning of the tomatoes over an open fire.)
Trees have their own internet system underground, but that is a topic for another post, and it's old news by now. Still cool, though!
Thanks for this tribute to a tree and may it be there for you for many years to come.
Hi Carol.
Yeah, I'm back blogging 2-3 times a week (some poetry and some comedic ranty blogs, and some photographic diary type post). Been back writing on hive for a bout a month now. What I realized is that it was all the behind the scenes stuff I was doing that was causing me massive stress. Basically, if I have daily commitments when my illness flares up I can't keep them and that stresses me to not be reliable.
Now I'm just here writing for fun it is much more manageable and fun 😂
Writing for fun, minus the managerial tasks - YES - curating, upovting, commenting, when it's mandatory and part of a designated role, can be stressfully time-consuming.
Welcome Back!!
And may you be well, always! Now to see what all I've missed - but first I'm supposed to be working on my novel. It was written as a contemporary but now it's an antique, set in 1993, before the internet and cell phones....