The Hello Tree
I wrote The Hello Tree in about 10 minutes this Saturday afternoon. It's about a man who is lamenting a life lesser lived and askes the tree that grows quietly outside his kitchen window for advice and comfort in his final hours. My friend the tree outside my window provided inspiration for this poem.
***
The Hello Tree
Hello tree, it's me
I'm still today but I don't often be
Here in my place quietly
contemplating myself unable to see
The nature of you as you stand outside
My kitchen window occupying the void
The space between me and you
Where there is nothing real
Only illusion to
The world of form where we both lose
But regain again if we so choose
The things we lost if willing to wait
For the void to visit by our laboured gait
As it always does, never to end
Please tell me tree, will I amend?
Hello tree I envy thee
You know that not yet known to me
It hidden from me, beyond my sight
Beyond the chaos, and too the fight
Something I know but just cannot find
It lives in you, right?
Are we but one of a kind?
I think we are please say it's so
For in this world I can barely go
Another day in this charge
Been given me without disparage
That I must hold, alone here
Until that day when all becomes clear
Hello tree, please tell me so
There cannot be much more to go
For me until I realise
I was loved by that which underlies
The world I made in my will to live
And gain the spoils rather than give
A second to that great love of mine
Which I forgot, which was lost in time
And now there is I and just you tree
Please tell me what is to be
Now all is silent, my heart bereft
Just you and me, there's no one left
Hello tree, tell me it is true
Tell me what I always knew
You were I and I was you.
Yes, very toughing indeed.
But you don’t want to post these on your blog if you plan on publishing them, once they on the internet someone can claim them for their own. Just some my word of advise that I have read in the past and is why I decided I would wait till I have all twenty, as twenty is all you need to publish in a book.
Thanks Penny, I’ll take that on board. I’ll publish them in book form anyway and if someone steals them, then so be it. I’ll be flattered. Broke but flattered!
e cummings – stream of consciousness – not the rhyming hallmark greeting card poetry – Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree” and “Freddie the Leaf” – better – Larry – time short and filled with your family this Saturday… 😉 Peace, kid.
“I think that I will never see a sight more beautiful than a tree…”
Thanks for reading Jeff. I’m looking to publish some of these in a few places online. Any suggestions?
I would think a small anthology as a PDF may work initially – as a Patron element on Patreon with links from your other web pages, or as a WordPress “give-away” or “bonus” to whet the readers’ appetite… 😉
“We, that we are
so much more
than that which
we think
we are…”
Beautiful and thought-provoking poem!!!
Hey thanks for reading Gaelle!