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Poetry: February 15, 2023 Issue [#11815]




 This week: Poet-tree
  Edited by: Fyn Author IconMail Icon
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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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Letter from the editor

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...






Editor's Picks


 
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All the Trees of the Field Open in new Window. (E)
2023 Annual Valentine. Illustration by Nathan Rice
#2289988 by Private Author IconMail Icon


 
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There Lived Red Bud, A Magical Tree Open in new Window. (E)
free verse poem about nature and the love of nature
#2285175 by turtlemoon-dohi Author IconMail Icon


 Branches from Different Trees Open in new Window. (ASR)
symbolic thought of the family tree and the option of adoption
#2284742 by Dawn Embers Author IconMail Icon


 Over the Trees of Belfast Open in new Window. (E)
Observation while in Belfast.
#2273367 by Eric Delmont Author IconMail Icon


 
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Tree in Hand Open in new Window. (E)
prompted by a photo of a tree in a stone hand
#2258971 by LeJenD' Author IconMail Icon


 Aokigahara Open in new Window. (18+)
Just read it...
#1877874 by Fyn Author IconMail Icon


 
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Sea of Trees Open in new Window. (18+)
Sea of trees, Aokigahara
#2059943 by ~Minja~ Author IconMail Icon


 
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Aokigahara - The Suicide Forest Open in new Window. (ASR)
The “Sea of Trees” collects the souls lost to despair. A Spirits at Lighthouses Entry
#2253178 by 🌕 HuntersMoon Author IconMail Icon

 
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Ask & Answer

AmyJo-Thankful in heart Author IconMail Icon 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.

Monty Author IconMail Icon adds:Just to write the simple feelings if they have not died leaving you waiting for inspiration.


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