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Today's poem has not appeared on the blog since 2008 and has been especially requested
by ‘Jack and Louise’ for ‘[our] son Michael and his partner Jonathan.’
So the poem talks of gay love…so what? Love is
love is love just as a poem is a poem is a poem and - most importantly of all - a person is a person is a person. Never let anyone tell you
otherwise.
Oh, but the tales a tree can tell...if we but care to listen!
The famous
opening lines of ‘Trees’ by American writer, Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918) s may well spring to
mind:
‘I think that I shall never
see
A poem lovely as a tree...’
Photo: An ash tree.
A PASSION FOR TREES
There’s a tree in a field
that sings me a love song
every time I’m sitting
where it rises from the
ground;
listen, and you’ll hear
the lyric of a love song
hanging
on a dream lost and found
By a tree in a field
we wrote our first love
song,
bodies entwining
as we lay there on the
ground,
sharing with the birds
such joy, such passion,
hanging
on a dream lost and found
There’s a tree in a field
that watched us kiss and
part,
not daring to believe
as we lay there on the
ground
how gay love might
survive a world left but
hanging
on dreams lost and found
To a tree in a field
we returned to write a love
song,
bodies entwining
as we lay there on the
ground,
sharing with the birds
such joy, such passion, a
waking
dream lost and found
Copyright R. N. Taber 2008
[From: Tracking the Torchbearer by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2012]
Labels: affinity, history, human nature, imagination, life, love, mind-body-spirit, nature, personal space, poem, poetry, positive thinking, time, trees
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