Trees and People



PART A:

Trees blossom.
Trees nourish.
Just as people
Everywhere.

Trees breed shoots.
Trees seek roots.
Just as people
Everywhere.

Trees fall,
Short or tall.
Just as people
Everywhere.

Trees live.
Trees die.
Just as people
Everywhere.

PART B:

Trees bear fruit.
People bear children.
All preciously harvested.

Trees quite literally,
Are paper-giving
As burnt offering.

People, trees viewing,
Are literacy receiving.
Eternally memorializing.

Trees and people,
People and trees…
Each embracing the other.

About this poem

This poem celebrates the symbiotic relationship between people and trees, each, although a different species, providing and exchanging oxygen, shelter, companionship, medicine, and tranquility. The poem is written metrically in two parts, each with four stanzas; with Part A consisting of a four-line stanza, and with Part B having a three-line stanza.

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Written on November 22, 2021

Submitted by karlcfolkes on November 22, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme xxAB ccAB ddAB xxAB xxx xee eee axx
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 514
Words 109
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3

Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1991 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s “Dear Mili” Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes of Analytical Psychology. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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