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Tree Talks 56 - 62

56.
You, I, are carriers.
Of what, I do not know.
We move from place to place,
Unconscious, unaware
of what we carry.
The bee carries
only, always pollen.
We, aware, can choose
and change.
Carry
in your heart
images of your lover tree.
Give it, share it,
show it
to others, slowly,
quietly. They
will thank and
reward your
thought fullness.


57.
If we were not blind,
not so young,
had our eyes already open,
we could see a lovelier
network than any of our
harshly poisonous
electronic chains
filled with primitive ones
and zeros. Lovelier far,
and more knowing:
the global communion
and fellowship
of all earth’s trees.


58.
When we are desolate,
do they speak louder
or do we listen better?
I don’t know.


59.
Enter tree time.
Leave people time.
Worlds await you.


60.
The ten thousand things
with their many surfaces
seduce, caress and hit.

They are more, can do more:
doors and doorkeepers.
Therefore, close your eyes and see.
Therefore, close your eyes and see.

Some doors are wide, some narrow,
some closed tight, some ajar.
Some locks are old, some new,
some easy, some hard.

Come and try a tree.
Close your eyes and see.
Turn the knob and pull.
That’s all. folks.


61.
Who learns from the trees
and their ten thousand friends
that the inner organic way always works,
that the outer rapacious way always fails?
The trees and their ten thousand friends
are content to feed, clothe, house us,
to give us even the stuff of books.
But this? This paved earth,
these ringed hands, thunderous birds,
false days, connect-the-dots lives?
When will our numb ears learn to hear
the quiet, gently perseverant no-no-no
from the trees and their ten thousand friends?


62.
They speak
from a dictionary
once called "Tao."
Now I call it
"grace."

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