Trees by Bhaktimarga Swami

Trees

What hugs the soil and keeps it in place

Teaches tolerance especially at the base

Provides us company when down and lonely

Is a true member of the earthly family?

Trees

What cuts the wind when all is tossed in the air

Which resembles a turbulent mind enough to scare

What emits a sweet sent at dusk and at dawn

And has sap flow at winter’s end when spring is on?

Trees

What gives warmth in cold in coolness in the heat

And what eats and drinks by their very own feet

Give shelter with shade at a blazing sun’s prime

What will never let you down in the worst of time?

Trees

What stretches up to touch a gorgeous guy

And what is home for the species that fly

What provides rest and a place of refuge

For feathered and furry friends during this deluge?

Trees

What dances in breezes in awesome rhythm

Makes music of creaks, moans and psithurism

What can cause a surge of adrenaline

Contains fire and hydrogen and oxygen?

Trees

What are the soft hairs jutting out of the universe

Yielding healing properties like nature’s nurse

What requires our stewardship and service

A chance for their well-deserved catharsis?

Trees

I can tell you what saved my life multiple times

Their arms reached out to mine on a steep climb

More than once I took to a slippery slope

When there seemed to be so little hope

Trees

Trees (Part-Two)

Some are alive

Some are dead

Some are green

Some are red

Some bear fruit

Some bear nuts

Most have wood

For the very own guts

Some have needles

Some have leaves

Know it for certain

They’re here to please

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Source: http://thewalkingmonk.blogspot.com/2020/05/friday-may-22-2020.html

Jaya, his Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupoda! Good morning Swamiji, I always enjoy reading your posts. When younger I planted trees professionaly in the NW USA when doing reforestation work. They hold a special heartfelt place in me. The trees in my treebag were in my care to be planted properly for their good growth. Holding eaches roots in my fingers tips I would send it into the hole I just made with my hoedad, feeing the roots straight dangling in it, I would push the dirt into the tree holding it straight in place, then stamp it solid with my foot while holding the tree tip. Already spotting where to plant the next tree I move 8-6 ft. away, and all day long up and down thru the mountains I would go planting these beautiful babies. At an average of 400 trees a day, I must have planted 240,000 trees during all the seasons I did this work. Thanks for the poem, it was great! And I had just read the story of Nalakuvara and Manigriva from the 10th canto again. Have a good day, Hare Krishna, Bhakta Bill, New Vrindavana

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bill white May 26, 2020 at 4:46pm

Jaya, his Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupoda! Good morning Swamiji, I always enjoy reading your posts. When younger I planted trees professionaly in the NW USA when doing reforestation work. They hold a special heartfelt place in me. The trees in my treebag were in my care to be planted properly for their good growth. Holding eaches roots in my fingers tips I would send it into the hole I just made with my hoedad, feeing the roots straight dangling in it, I would push the dirt into the tree holding it straight in place, then stamp it solid with my foot while holding the tree tip. Already spotting where to plant the next tree I move 8-6 ft. away, and all day long up and down thru the mountains I would go planting these beautiful babies. At an average of 400 trees a day, I must have planted 240,000 trees during all the seasons I did this work. Thanks for the poem, it was great! And I had just read the story of Nalakuvara and Manigriva from the 10th canto again. Have a good day, Hare Krishna, Bhakta Bill, New Vrindavana

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