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Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it. ~~Douglas Hyde
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind. ~~Bruce Lee
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. ~~Lord Byron
They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again! ~~Toussaint Louverture
Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree. ~~Joyce Meyer
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. ~~John Greenleaf Whittier
A tree's wood is also its memoir. ~~Hope Jahren
You never quite know what you do in life that leaves a seed behind that grows into an oak tree.~~ Michael Portillo
You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different. ~~Neil Gaiman
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Poetry - poet-tree. A poem is not merely words inked upon a page, nor a magniloquent expression of description.
Poetry is a tree that grows, boughs reaching out, leaves fluttering in a breeze, harboring the birds that sing of home. More, it is both the bark, papered, gnarled, or smooth and the roots digging ever deeper in the soil to both feed itself and keep it upright. Just as there is far more to a tree, so there is more to consider within a poem than that which manifests itself on the surface.
Ideas branch off every bough, forking into branches, twigs, and leaves. Ideas sprout from buried roots spreading out in all directions. Even within the framework of a structured poem, there is, when following the roots or branches, choices, and decisions made or ignored which can take that poet-tree far beyond initial intention or desire.
The very blooms and leaves themselves are the readers and within each, the poem grows and gains dimension. The seeds planted in the words fly far to reach fertile soil where once again that idea takes root. Sometimes, it is hard to remember that a poem is not static, but evolves within the reader as they age, grow, and read or remember it again. And yet, this is a thought that should be in our minds as we write.
Just planting some seeds for thought...
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AmyJo- only 2 steps behind -   says: I used to read relentlessly, but somehow got away from it. I received a book set by Jane Austen for Christmas, and it has awakened my love for reading again. I hope to use this to strive to be a better writer, not only poems, but stories too.
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Poetry: February 15, 2023 Issue [#11815]
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